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Credited as among Aesop's Fables, and recorded in Latin by Phaedrus, [1] the fable is numbered 137 in the Perry Index. [2] There are also versions by the so-called Syntipas (47) via the Syriac, Ademar of Chabannes (60) in Mediaeval Latin, and in Medieval English by William Caxton (4.16). The story concerns a flea that travels on a camel and ...
A sequel, Esope à la cour [69] (Aesop at Court), was first performed in 1701; drawing on a mention in Herodotus 2.134-5 [70] that Aesop had once been owned by the same master as Rhodopis, and the statement in Pliny 36.17 [71] that she was Aesop's concubine as well, the play introduced Rodope as Aesop's mistress, a romantic motif that would be ...
Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
Nevertheless, the Spanish version of the fable in La vida del Ysopet con sus fabulas hystoriadas (1489), drawn from the same source as Caxton, concluded with the warning "that you should not seek enmity for pleasure or fun, for given the evil and unreasonableness of others, you can be injured by the one you hurt and annoy". [15]
Phaedrus, 1745 engraving. Gaius Julius Phaedrus (/ ˈ f iː d r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος; Phaîdros), or Phaeder (c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD) was a 1st-century AD Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin.
The Miser and his Gold (or Treasure) is one of Aesop's Fables that deals directly with human weaknesses, in this case the wrong use of possessions. Since this is a story dealing only with humans, it allows the point to be made directly through the medium of speech rather than be surmised from the situation.
Andersen's tale is based on a 1335 story from the Libro de los ejemplos (or El Conde Lucanor), [2] a medieval Spanish collection of fifty-one cautionary tales with various sources such as Aesop and other classical writers and Persian folktales, by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282–1348).
In contemporary Israel, the term "Messiah's Donkey" (Chamoro Shel Mashiach חמורו של משיח) stands at the centre of a controversial religious-political doctrine, under which it was the Heavenly-imposed "task" of secular Zionists to build up a Jewish State, but once the state is established they are fated to give place to the Religious ...