The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable of the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop.

Content

A grasshopper had the whole summer on the field, amused, while the industrious ant had collected grain for the winter. And when winter came, the grasshopper was so plagued by hunger, that she had to go begging. When she begged for alms at the ant, you said this:

But then the ant took pity and gave her still something to eat:

The grasshopper agreed and made ​​music before the ant and then got some alms.

Edits

The same content has the fable " The Cicada and the Ant " by the French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, in the end looks a bit different:

This fable was founded in 1934 as a template for the animated short film The Grasshopper and the Ants (English: The Grasshopper and the Ants ) used by Walt Disney.

Even the Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov, she served as a template for his fable " The Dragonfly and the Ant ", except that the dragonfly is rejected and must die at the end. This version was filmed in 1913 in Russia as an animated film.

In Roland Schimmelpfennig's play "The Golden Dragon" (2009) is the fable of " Cicada and Ant" used in a narrative level of a time-critical migrants drama.