The situation of the Eagle Wounded by an Arrow vaned with its own feathers is referred to in several ancient Greek sources and is listed as fable 276 in the Perry Index. It is generally applied to the
A savage landscape by Anne-Louis Girodet
Rosa Bonheur's The Wounded Eagle c.1870, LACMA
La Fontaine's Fables
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Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several vo
The Eagle Wounded by an Arrow
…its sorrow at being struck down is doubled by the knowledge that it has furnished the means for its own destruction. But when the situation appeared in La Fontaine's Fables, it was under the more generalised title of "The bird wounded by an arrow" (II.6) and a wider lesson is drawn from the incident. The dying bird blames…
An Aubusson tapestry from the 18th century illustrating "The Lion in Love"
Facsimile of the manuscript of "The Sculptor and the Statue of Jupiter"
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