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A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum). The majority of literary allusions to the fable have contrasted the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork, but it was pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey ...
The fable was a favourite in England and was put to popular use on 18th century china by the Fenton pottery [13] and in the 19th century by the Wedgwood pottery. This was on its Aesop series of coloured plates, signed by Emile Lessore in the 1860s. [14] Minton's pottery also used the fable on a series of Aesop tiles a little later.
The Scorpion and the Frog is sometimes attributed to Aesop, although it does not appear in any collection of Aesop's fables published before the 20th century. [ 9 ] [ 12 ] However, there are a number of ancient fables traditionally attributed to Aesop which teach a similar moral, the closest parallels being The Farmer and the Viper and The Frog ...
Toggle Aesop's Fables subsection. 1.1 Titles A–F. 1.2 Titles G–O. 1.3 Titles R–Z. 2 References. ... The Frog and the Fox; The Frog and the Mouse; The Frog and ...
The poem was also issued as a propaganda pamphlet under the title of The Frog, or the Low Countrey Nightingale during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A similar claim was made, using the same fable, during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672-8 in a European pamphlet war encompassing publications in Latin, French, Spanish and Italian. [8]
A frog leaves his native swamp and proclaims himself a wonder-working doctor. He is then asked by a sceptical fox how it is that he cannot cure his own lameness and sickly complexion. The fox's taunt echoes the Greek proverb, " Physician, heal thyself ", which was current in Aesop's time (and was later quoted in the Christian scriptures).
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. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers ...
A plate from 1880 illustrating the fable. The Frog and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables and exists in several versions. It is numbered 384 in the Perry Index. [1] There are also Eastern versions of uncertain origin which are classified as Aarne-Thompson type 278, concerning unnatural relationships. [2]