Egyptian Art in Denmark
Grønne aber
Sacred Luxuries
An Ancient Egyptian Herbal
Ancient Egyptian Sexual Life
L'art égyptien
Music and Musicians
Lost Tombs
Activity Book
The lion and the mouse
City of the Dead
The prince who knew his fate
Ægyptisk kunst
Djadja-em-ankh
The lion and the mouse Danish edition: Swedish edition: Japanese edition: J |
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A tale
translated from a papyrus scroll written down by an Egyptian scribe around
the 2nd century AD in a script known as Demotic.
The story is most commonly known in the version by Aesop, who lived in Greece in the 7th-6th centuries BC and another by Lafontaine in the 17th century AD. Animal fables had existed in Egypt long before Aesop, and the core of the story presented here probably goes back much further than the manuscript. This version introduces MAN as the great evil-doer. The drawings were made by the author, based on paintings and reliefs more than 3000 years old. |