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The Tortoise and the Eagle

various fables, including Aesop's
VisualArtwork literary_work Q7769645

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12 properties
Instance of
literary work
Author
Aesop, Avianus[2][3]
Genre
fable[4]
Language of work or name
Ancient Greek[6]
Part of
Aesop's Fables[5]
Catalog code
419[7]
Derivative work
The Turtle and the Two Ducks[20]
Different from
The Eagle and the Crow[19]
Form of creative work
short story
Has edition or translation
La Tortue et l’Aigle, The Tortoise and the Eagle, The Tortoise and the Eagle, Of the Tortoſe and of the other Byrdes, An Eagle and a Tortoiſe, Del Galapago, ó Tortuga, y de las Aves, La tortuga y el águila, Q138587998, Q130752575[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Narrative motif
borrowed feathers[21]
Title
Χελώνη και αετός, The Tortoise and the Eagle[17][18]
🏷️ Also known as
en The Tortoise and the Eagle en The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking en Babrius 115 en Halm 419 en Perry 230 en The Tortoise and the Birds de Die Schildkröte und die beiden Vögel de Die Schildkröte und die Vögel es La tortuga y el águila fr La Tortue et l’Aigle fr La Tortue et les deux Canards fr La Tortue et les Deux Canards id Seekor Kura-Kura dan Para Burung pt Fabulas de Esopo/A Aguia e a Corexa ru Черепаха и орёл
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
10-3-La-tortue-et-les-deux-canards.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/03qnr8v
Perry Index
230

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Author 2
Aesop, Avianus
Form of creative work 1
short story
Genre 1
fable
Instance of 1
literary work
Language of work or name 1
Ancient Greek
Part of 1
Aesop's Fables
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Summary

The Tortoise and the Eagle is a literary work[1].

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Works and Contributions

Authored works include Aesop[2], a fabulist[22], -0620–-0564[23] and Avianus[3], a writer[24], 0400–0401[25], of Ancient Rome[26].

Related Entities

Aesop Aesop's Fables literary work

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  6. [7] ↑ . Babrius and Phaedrus. wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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