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The miller, his son and the donkey is a widely dispersed fable, number 721 in the Perry Index and number 1215 in the Aarne–Thompson classification systems of folklore narratives. Though it may have ancient analogues, the earliest extant version is in the work of the 13th-century Arab writer Ibn Said .
The fable is a variant of stories recorded since antiquity of which there is scarcely one version that concerns the same pair of animals. It is included as one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 181 in the Perry Index, [1] and other Greek sources also pair a donkey and a mule, while the story is told of an ox and a donkey in the Mediaeval Latin version of Ademar of Chabannes.
The Horse and the Donkey; The Horse that Lost its Liberty; The Impertinent Insect; The Jar of Blessings; The Kite and the Doves; The Lion and the Mouse; The Lion Grown Old; The Lion in Love; The Lion's Share; The Lion, the Bear and the Fox; The Lion, the Boar and the Vultures; The Man and the Lion; The Man with two Mistresses; The Mischievous ...
Buridan's Donkey, a 1932 French comedy film, is named after the paradox. Lewis Cass , the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1848, was contrasted with Buridan's ass by Abraham Lincoln : "Mr. Speaker, we have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay, and starving to death.
The majority of the hundred fables there are Aesop's but there are also humorous tales such as The drowned woman and her husband (41) and The miller, his son and the donkey (100). In the same year that Faerno was published in Italy, Hieronymus Osius brought out a collection of 294 fables titled Fabulae Aesopi carmine elegiaco redditae in ...
The citizens of Athens are grumbling at their new ruler and Aesop advises them, after he has told the fable, 'hoc sustinete, maius ne veniat, malum (hang on to your present evil, lest it become worse). [13] Some quite different stories exist with much the same moral as this, retaining certain aspects of the story-line of "The Ass and his Masters".
Thomas Nast's cartoon "Third Term Panic" "The Ass in the Lion's Skin" was one of the several Aesop's fables put to use by American political cartoonist Thomas Nast, when it was rumoured in 1874 that Republican president Ulysses S. Grant intended to stand for election for an unprecedented third term in 1876.
In the analogical relationship between Aesop's own situation and the fable, the girl's mother is Aesop's friend, the girl is Aesop and the Delphites are the man who rapes the donkey. [162] In two fables in Esopete ystoriado , there are passages that directly and indirectly emphasize that men want to have sexual intercourse with donkeys.