The Tortoise and the Hare, the Glossary
"The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index.[1]
Table of Contents
50 relations: A cappella, Aesop's Fables, Anthony Plog, Beastly Tales, Bob Chilcott, Boston Marathon, Cello, Charles H. Bennett (illustrator), Copley Square, Cyprus, Dahomey, Dominica, Edward Bawden, Emblem book, Eros, Festina lente, Flook (band), France, Francis Barlow (artist), Greece, Hare, Hip hop music, Hungary, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jan Wildens, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, Julie Giroux, La Fontaine's Fables, Law of the handicap of a head start, Lord Dunsany, Maldives, Monaco, Nancy Schön, Native Americans in the United States, Otto van Veen, Perry Index, Politics (Yellowjackets album), Polka, Samuel Croxall, Sri Lanka, The Hare and the Hedgehog, Tortoise, Van Cortlandt Park, Vikram Seth, Vincent Persichetti, Vladimir Cosma, Walt Disney, Yellowjackets (band), Zeno of Elea, Zeno's paradoxes.
- ATU 275-299
- Rabbits and hares in literature
- Turtles in literature
A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
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Aesop's Fables
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.
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Anthony Plog
Anthony Plog (born November 13, 1947) is an American conductor, composer and trumpet player.
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Beastly Tales
Beastly Tales from Here and There is a 1992 collection of ten fables in poetry written by Vikram Seth.
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Bob Chilcott
Robert Chilcott (born 9 April 1955) is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxfordshire, England.
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Boston Marathon
The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States.
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Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
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Charles H. Bennett (illustrator)
Charles Henry Bennett (26 July 1828 – 2 April 1867) was a British Victorian illustrator who pioneered techniques in comic illustration.
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Copley Square
Copley Square is a public square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, bounded by Boylston Street, Clarendon Street, St.
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Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904.
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Dominica
Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.
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Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden, (10 March 1903 – 21 November 1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture.
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Emblem book
An emblem book is a book collecting emblems (allegorical illustrations) with accompanying explanatory text, typically morals or poems.
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Eros
In Greek mythology, Eros (Ἔρως|lit.
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Festina lente
Festina lente or speûde bradéōs (σπεῦδε βραδέως) is a classical adage and oxymoron meaning "make haste slowly" (sometimes rendered in English as "more haste, less speed").
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Flook (band)
Flook is an Anglo-Irish band playing traditional-style instrumental music, much of it penned by the band themselves.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Francis Barlow (artist)
Francis Barlow (c. 1626 – 1704) was an English painter, etcher, and illustrator.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
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Hare
Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.
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Jan Wildens
Jan Wildens (1586 in Antwerp – 16 October 1653 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman specializing in landscapes.
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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (13 September 1803 – 17 March 1847) was a prolific French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Grandville, and numerous variations (e. g. Jean-Jacques Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville) throughout his career.
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Julie Giroux
Julie Ann Giroux (born December 12, 1961, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts) is an American pianist and composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and numerous concert band works.
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La Fontaine's Fables
Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse.
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Law of the handicap of a head start
The law of the handicap of a head start (original Dutch: Wet van de remmende voorsprong), first-mover disadvantage, or dialectics of lead, is a theory that suggests that an initial head start in a given area may result in a handicap in the long term.
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Lord Dunsany
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist.
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Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
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Monaco
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Nancy Schön
Nancy Schön (born 1928) is an American sculptor whose work is displayed internationally in museums, libraries, universities, private collections, and public outdoor spaces.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Otto van Veen
Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized names Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius (1556 – 6 May 1629), was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Perry Index
The Perry Index is a widely used index of "Aesop's Fables" or "Aesopica", the fables credited to Aesop, the storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The Tortoise and the Hare and Perry Index are Aesop's Fables.
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Politics (Yellowjackets album)
Politics (1988) is the sixth studio album from the jazz group Yellowjackets.
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Polka
Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.
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Samuel Croxall
Samuel Croxall (c. 1688/9 – 1752) was an Anglican churchman, writer and translator, particularly noted for his edition of Aesop's Fables.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
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The Hare and the Hedgehog
The Hare and the Hedgehog or The race between the Hare and the Hedgehog (Low Saxon:"Dat Wettlopen twischen den Hasen un den Swinegel up de lütje Heide bi Buxtehude", German: "Der Hase und der Igel") is a Low Saxon fable. The Tortoise and the Hare and the Hare and the Hedgehog are Rabbits and hares in literature.
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Tortoise
Tortoises are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise").
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Van Cortlandt Park
Van Cortlandt Park is a park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City.
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Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.
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Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist.
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Vladimir Cosma
Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, who has made his career in France and the United States.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.
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Yellowjackets (band)
Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, California.
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Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea (Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
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Zeno's paradoxes
Zeno's paradoxes are a series of philosophical arguments presented by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC), primarily known through the works of Plato, Aristotle, and later commentators like Simplicius of Cilicia.
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See also
ATU 275-299
- The Frogs Who Desired a King
- The North Wind and the Sun
- The Oak and the Reed
- The Snake and the Farmer
- The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
- The Tortoise and the Hare
Rabbits and hares in literature
- Br'er Rabbit
- Br'er Rabbit Earns a Dollar a Minute
- March Hare
- Peter Cottontail
- Peter Rabbit
- Rabbit (Winnie-the-Pooh)
- Tar-Baby
- The Frightened Hares
- The Hare and many friends
- The Hare and the Hedgehog
- The Hare in flight
- The Laughing Place
- The Seven Swabians
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- The Wonderful Musician
- Thumper (Bambi)
- White Rabbit
Turtles in literature
- Boes
- Cultural depictions of turtles
- Lionel's Kingdom
- Mock Turtle
- Sandrembi and Chaisra
- The Tortoise and the Birds
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- The Turtle Prince (folktale)
- The Turtle and the Monkey
- Zeus and the Tortoise
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare
Also known as Caleb's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Turtle and the Hare, The Turtle and the Rabbit, Tortoise and the Hare.