"The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself
"The Tortoise and the Hare", from an edition of Aesop's Fables illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1912
A 19th-century illustration of La Fontaine's Fables by Jean Grandville, showing the tortoise running bipedally.
The Van Cortlandt Park sculpture with the Tortoise & Hare Café across the street.
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories as
The Tortoise and the Hare
…The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is…
A Greek manuscript of the fables of Babrius
A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, Italy, with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb
A Japanese woodblock print illustrates the moral of Hercules and the Wagoner.
The Nepalese Iisapan Daekaatagu Bakhan