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In the distance, on the opposite bank, his dishonest neighbour has raised his axe before throwing it into the river. In 1987 the story was included on the 40 drachma value of the eight-stamp set of Aesop's fables issued by Greece and features the naked god seated on a rock in the river and offering the three axes to the bearded woodman on the bank.
The first printed version of Aesop's Fables in English was published on 26 March 1484, by William Caxton. [82] Many others, in prose and verse, followed over the centuries. In the 20th century Ben E. Perry edited the Aesopic fables of Babrius and Phaedrus for the Loeb Classical Library and compiled a numbered index by type in 1952. [83]
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Book illustrations of Aesop's fable inevitably picture two contrasting pots being carried along a river. In the lively woodblock print by the Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyosai, the pots are given human forms and shown tossed on the waves of a heavy sea. There the earthen pot is desperately fending off the friendly approach of the metal pot.
In the Latin versions of Walter of England, [5] Odo of Cheriton [6] and Heinrich Steinhöwel's Aesop, [7] for example, the word umbra is used. At that time it could mean both reflection and shadow, and it was the latter word that was preferred by William Caxton, who used Steinhöwel's as the basis of his own 1384 collection of the fables. [8]
Takeda's study began as an attempt to find the origin of a more recent hybrid tale with elements of both Aesop's fable and the Eastern analogue. In this, it is a frog that is asked by the scorpion to carry it across the water. To allay the frog's suspicions, the scorpion argues that this would be safe since, if he stung the frog, both would drown.
The earliest known appearance of this fable is in the 1933 Russian novel The German Quarter by Lev Nitoburg. The novel refers to it as an "oriental fairy tale". [2] The fable also appears in the 1944 novel The Hunter of the Pamirs, and this is the earliest known appearance of the fable in English. [3]