Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e of the Members and the Stomach was discovered upon a schoolboystablet at Turin, and published by Maspero, Eludes Egyptiennes, vol. i. pp. 260-264. The first Egyptologist to chiim an Egyptian origin for many of our fables was Zlndel, Eaope€tait-d Jaif uu Egyptieni in the llevue Archfohigique, 2nd scries, vol. iii. pp. 354-369; cf Lacth,Uber die eymbolische Schrift der Alten ^gypter, in the Sitzungsberichte of the Academy of Sciences at 500 THE CLOSE OF THE THE BAN EMPIRE. As La Fontaine found an illustrator in Granville, so, too, in Egypt thedraughtsman brought his reed to the aid of the fabulist, and by his cleverlyexecuted sketches gave greater point to the sarcasm of story than mere wordscould have conveyed.^ ^Yhere the author had briefly mentioned that thejackal and the cat had cunningly forced their services on the animals whomthey wished to devour at their leisure, the artist would depict the jackal andthe cat equipped as peasants, with wallets on their backs, and sticks over
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THE CAT AND THE JACKAL GO OFF To TUE FIELDS WITH TUEIK FLOCKS. their shoulders, marching behind a troup of gazelles or a flock of fat geese:it was easy to foretell tlie fate of their unfortunate charges. Elsewhere it is anox who brings up before his master a cat who has cheated him, and his pro-verbial stupidity would incline us to think that he will end by being punishedhimself for the misdeeds of which he had accused the other. Pusss sly andartful expression, the ass-headed and important-looking judge, with the wandand costume of a high and mighty dignitary, give pungency to the story, and Munich, 186S, vol. i. pp. 357, 358. The Fahle of the Lion and the licit was discovered in a demoticpapyrus at Leyden (i. 384, p. xviii. 11. 11-34 ; cf. Leemans, Monuments ^gyptiens, vol. i. pi. ccsxiii.)by Lauth, ijber die Tlderfahel in .^gypten, in the Silzungsherichte of the Academy of Sciences atMunich, 1868, vol. ii. pp. 50, 51, and retranslated into French and German by Bkugsch, La Fable duLi

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