They were also capable of guiding humans in need, as in the fable of The Satyr and the Traveller, in the title of which Latin authors substituted the word Faunus.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in the Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable ; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols ' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader Genghis Khan with Prester John ; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Mongols ' homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

* Monaco issued a composite 50 centime stamp on the 350th anniversary of La Fontaine's birth in 1971, on which this fable appears

In France it was on one of a strip of six 2, 80 franc stamps, each illustrating a different fable ; in Albania the fable appears by itself on the 25 leke stamp and as part of the over-all design of the 60 leke commemorative.

The Latin version of the fable first appears centuries later in Avianus as De Vento et Sole ( Of the wind and the sun, Fable 4 ); early versions in English and Johann Gottfried Herder's poetic version in German ( Wind und Sonne ) also give it as such.

Golan was responsible for the 1980 musical The Apple, an unusual moral fable with a rock-disco soundtrack which appears on a number of lists of all-time-worst movies, but has developed a following as a cult film.

" The old fable of a living Richard was revived ", notes one account, " and emissaries from Scotland traversed the villages of England, in the last year of Henry's reign, declaring that Richard was residing at the Scottish Court, awaiting only a signal from his friends to repair to London and recover his throne.

Because of the Egyptian location wherein the scene is staged, it is not impossible to scope in this biblical tale also a more recent echo of the very old Egyptian fable of the two brothers Bata and Anpu.

In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.

"— an old proverb Lydgate included in his moral fable The Churl and the Bird

#* Significance: Party constitution ( 黨章 ) is passed ; CPC Chairman Mao Zedong is named leader of CPC ; Mao Zedong Thought enshrined in CPC Party Constitution for first time ; Mao retells the fable of " the old fool who moves a mountain " ( 愚公移山 ) in his closing address.

Leo IX assured the Patriarch that the donation was completely genuine, not a fable or old wives ' tale, so only the apostolic successor to Peter possessed that primacy and was the rightful head of all the Church.

However, the most serious loss is that of his translation of Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa's Arabic version of the old Indian fable book Kalila and Dimna ( Panchatantra ), which he put into Persian verse at the request of his royal patron.

Others that have gained currency through anthologies include ‘ The Destined Hour ’ ( 1953 ), a re-telling in verse of the old ‘ appointment in Samarra ’ fable, and ‘ Spain 1809 ’, the story of a village woman's courage during the French occupation in the Peninsular War.

Leonard Maltin praised the film upon its DVD release, saying " Millions is a winning and unpredictable fable from England that will charm viewers both young and old.

The musical fable, employing a nearly bare stage, explores the contrasts between youth and old age, innocence and corruption, love and ambition, and poverty and wealth.

The story and metaphor of The Dog in the Manger derives from an old Greek fable which has been transmitted in several different versions.

Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you .”

The wren is also known as kuningilin " kinglet " in Old High German, a name associated with the fable of the election of the " king of birds ".

The 1938 and 1949 sources use the phrase in relating a fable about a king ( Nebuchadnezzar in Dos Utt's retelling ) seeking advice from his economic advisors.

Following Aesop's fable of the frogs who demand a king from the god Jupiter and are disappointed by the results, the film shows a clear preference not for the pre-monarchial or decadent democracy ( which would likely be the slant of an American or French film ), but for King Log's form of libertarian government.

The biography of Macrinus is notoriously unreliable, and after a partial reversion to reliability in the Elagabalus, the life of Alexander Severus, one of the longest biographies in the entire work, develops into a kind of exemplary and rhetorical fable on the theme of the wise philosopher king.

Dromichaetes is the king of Dacians and the main character in Muntele (" The Mountain "), a play written in 1977 by Dumitru Radu Popescu and a political fable.

It is also a parody of an ancient Chinese fable about a foolish king who respected honor and humanity too much in a war and consequently lost his kingdom.

The fable of Oedipus, with a theme of inadvertent incest between a mother and son, ends in disaster and shows ancient taboos against incest as Oedipus is punished for incestuous actions by blinding himself.

Kratonohy was founded — according to a fable — by Býd, the son of count Slavomil of Kouřim at the place where he rested with his people for three days.

At the Paris Salon of 1839, Wiertz showed not only his Patrocles, but also three other works: Madame Laetitia Bonaparte sur son lit de mort (" Madame Laetitia Bonaparte on her deathbed "), La Fable des trois souhaits — Insatiabilité humaine (" The fable of the three wishes — Human insatiability ") and Le Christ au tombeau (" Christ entombed ").

The first century Roman historian Pliny the Elder discounted Sirens as pure fable, " although Dinon, the father of Clearchus, a celebrated writer, asserts that they exist in India, and that they charm men by their song, and, having first lulled them to sleep, tear them to pieces.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times in her review, called Six Pack " good-natured but none-too-interesting " as a typical fable where " orphans find a father, a lonely man finds a good woman, an unsuccessful racer makes good on the comeback trail, and everybody lives unreasonably happily ever after.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

In the King James Version of the New Testament, " μύθος " (" mythos ") was rendered by the translators as " fable " in First and Second Timothy, in Titus and in First Peter .< ref >

The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree, less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

Children and, to some extent, adults are mesmerized by good story-tellers when they become animated in their quest to tell a good fable.

" Farmer Giles of Ham " is a Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949.

What is clear is that " Niger " was an appellation applied in the Mediterranean world from at least the Classical era, when knowledge of the area by Europeans was slightly better than fable.

It is said that a public house ( on the island ) can be cleared of people by calling out the word rabbit and while this was very true in the past, it has gradually become more fable than fact over the past 50 years.

As nothing is essential to the fable, but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed: Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus.

Gombrowicz's work is also well known for its playful allusions and satire, as when in " Trans-Atlantic ", a section of the text takes the form of a stylized 19th century diary, followed by a parody of a traditional fable.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection.

Hence it is probable, that in ancient times there may have been excellent singers, but of corrupt morals, on the coast of Sicily, who by seducing voyagers, gave rise to this fable.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

The very first translation, commissioned by his brother, Fernando de la Cerda — who had extensive experience, both diplomatic and military, among the Muslims of southern Iberia and north Africa — was a Castilian version of the animal fable Kalila wa-Dimna, a book that belongs to the genre of wisdom literature labeled Mirrors for Princes: stories and sayings meant to instruct the monarch in proper and effective governance.

Having become convinced of the Ship's true purpose, Hugh convinces Joe-Jim to complete the Vanguard's mission of reaching its intended destination ( preserved in fable as " Far Centaurus "), and returns to the lower levels of the Ship to convince others to help him ; but is arrested by his former boss Bill Ertz and sentenced to death.

The Judgement of Hercules, by Annibale Carracci, depicting the fable recounted by Prodicus