The Fox and the Crow (Aesop)
The fox and the raven is a fable, which is attributed to Aesop. Phaedrus wrote a Latin version (Vulpes et Corvus, Phaedrus, Fables 1, 13) in iambic Senar.
Action
A raven has found a piece of cheese and retreated to a branch to eat it, when a fox comes along. The fox, the cheese would have liked himself, flatters the raven, calls him beautiful and the king of birds. Finally, the fox asks the raven to sing for him.
Made imprudent from the flattery of the fox, the raven begins to sing. When he opens his beak, the cheese falls out and the fox catches him and eats him. Then he laughs and says: " Do not be fooled by sycophants. "
Interpretation
This fable is one of the famous fables of aesopschen and is generally understood as a warning against flatterers; However, this is not the only interpretation. Odo of Cheriton is a theological interpretation of history: the virtue, ie the food of the soul (ie, the piece of cheese ) loses, who ( symbolized by the singing ) can be tempted by the devil (ie the fox ) to the pursuit of vainglory.
Cultural Significance
References to the fable is found in many later European art works and seals.
Thus appears a representation of the mythical example, in the welt of the Bayeux Tapestry. Shown is the moment in which the raven 's beak opens and falls out of the cheese. It is the commentary on the scene that Harald Godwinson before his trip across the channel at a meal shows, where he is engrossed in a serious conversation with another man. Between them lies a circular object - in form and color it resembles the object to which the raven drops down into the welt of the beak. The scene is usually interpreted to mean that Harald is talking about the succession to the English throne.
Jean de La Fontaine published a poetic treatment of the fable. On the basis of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote in the 18th century under the title The Raven and the Fox an ironic variation of the theme, in which the flattery rather than rewarded, but punished: Since the fall of ravens serene piece of meat was poisoned, must fox finally painfully die of it.
The moral of the fox and the raven is said to this day. So there is a sequence of Sesame Street, in this fable is implemented.