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The fable tells how the king of the gods invited all the animals to his wedding but the tortoise never arrived. When asked why, her excuse was that she preferred her own home, so Zeus made her carry her house about forever after. That excuse in Greek was Οἶκος φίλος, οἶκος ἄριστος, literally 'the home you love is the best'.
Esio Trot is a 1990 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. [1] The title is an anadrome of "tortoise". It was the last of Dahl's books to be published in his lifetime; he died just two months later.
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“The world wars, the rise and fall of the British Empire, the many governors, kings and queens that have passed, it’s quite extraordinary. “And he’s just been here, enjoying himself.”
Adwaita (from अद्वैत, meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – 22 March 2006), also spelled Adwaitya [1] [2] or Addwaita, [3] was a male Aldabra giant tortoise that lived in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India.
The tortoise was the symbol of the ancient Greek city of Aegina, on the island by the same name: the seal and coins of the city shows images of tortoises. The word Chelonian comes from the Greek Chelone, a tortoise god. [13] The tortoise was a fertility symbol in Greek and Roman times, and an attribute of Aphrodite/Venus. [33]
The poem was set to music by György Ligeti in his "Nonsense Madrigals" (1988/93). The song is sung by a chorus to the "real" Alice in the 1985 film Dreamchild. The song was included on The Simon Sisters' children's album, The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children (1969).