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id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Fable by Aesop</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about Aesop's fable. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="The Tortoise and the Hare (disambiguation)">The Tortoise and the Hare (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tortoise_and_hare_rackham.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Tortoise_and_hare_rackham.jpg/220px-Tortoise_and_hare_rackham.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Tortoise_and_hare_rackham.jpg/330px-Tortoise_and_hare_rackham.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Tortoise_and_hare_rackham.jpg/440px-Tortoise_and_hare_rackham.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1734" data-file-height="2250" /></a><figcaption>"The Tortoise and the Hare", from an edition of <i>Aesop's Fables</i> illustrated by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Rackham" title="Arthur Rackham">Arthur Rackham</a>, 1912</figcaption></figure> <p>"<b>The Tortoise and the Hare</b>" is one of <a href="/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</a> and is numbered 226 in the <a href="/wiki/Perry_Index" title="Perry Index">Perry Index</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to overcome a stronger opponent. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="An_ambiguous_story">An ambiguous story</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: An ambiguous story"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The story concerns a <a href="/wiki/Hare" title="Hare">Hare</a> who ridicules a slow-moving <a href="/wiki/Tortoise" title="Tortoise">Tortoise</a>. Tired of the Hare's arrogant behaviour, the Tortoise challenges him to a race.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hare soon leaves the tortoise behind and, confident of winning, takes a nap midway through the race. When the Hare awakes, however, he finds that his competitor, crawling slowly but steadily, has arrived before him. The later version of the story in <a href="/wiki/La_Fontaine%27s_Fables" title="La Fontaine's Fables">La Fontaine's Fables</a> (VI.10), while more long-winded, differs hardly at all from Aesop's.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As in several other fables by Aesop, the lesson it is teaching appears ambiguous. In Classical times, it was not the Tortoise's plucky conduct in taking on a bully that was emphasised but the Hare's foolish over-confidence. An old Greek source comments that "many people have good natural abilities which are ruined by idleness; on the other hand, sobriety, zeal and perseverance can prevail over indolence".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the fable entered the European <a href="/wiki/Emblem_book" title="Emblem book">emblem</a> tradition, the precept to 'hasten slowly' (<i><a href="/wiki/Festina_lente" title="Festina lente">festina lente</a></i>) was recommended to lovers by <a href="/wiki/Otto_van_Veen" title="Otto van Veen">Otto van Veen</a> in his <i>Emblemata Amorum</i> (1608), using a relation of the story. There, the infant figure of <a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a> is shown passing through a landscape and pointing to the tortoise as it overtakes the sleeping hare under the motto "perseverance winneth."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later interpreters too have asserted that the fable's moral is the proverbial "the more haste, the worse speed" (<a href="/wiki/Samuel_Croxall" title="Samuel Croxall">Samuel Croxall</a>) or have applied to it the biblical observation that "the race is not to the swift" (Ecclesiastes 9.11). </p><p>In the 19th century, the fable was given satirical interpretations. In the social commentary of <a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Bennett_(illustrator)" title="Charles H. Bennett (illustrator)">Charles H. Bennett</a>'s <i>The Fables of Aesop translated into Human Nature</i> (1857), the hare is changed to a thoughtful craftsman prostrate under the foot of a capitalist entrepreneur.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Edward_Plunkett,_18th_Baron_of_Dunsany" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany">Lord Dunsany</a> brings out another view in his "The True History of the Tortoise and the Hare" (1915). There, the hare realises the stupidity of the challenge and refuses to proceed any further. The obstinate tortoise continues to the finishing line and is proclaimed the swiftest by his backers. But, continues Dunsany, </p> <dl><dd>the reason that this version of the race is not widely known is that very few of those that witnessed it survived the great forest-fire that happened shortly after. It came up over the weald by night with a great wind. The Hare and the Tortoise and a very few of the beasts saw it far off from a high bare hill that was at the edge of the trees, and they hurriedly called a meeting to decide what messenger they should send to warn the beasts in the forest. They sent the Tortoise.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>A century later, <a href="/wiki/Vikram_Seth" title="Vikram Seth">Vikram Seth</a> broadened the satire in his verse retelling of the fable in <i><a href="/wiki/Beastly_Tales" title="Beastly Tales">Beastly Tales</a></i> (1991) and had it both ways. There is nothing to recommend in the behaviour of either protagonist by way of a moral. While the Tortoise's victory bolsters its joyless self-righteousness, the hare-brained loser is taken up by the media and "pampered rotten/ And the tortoise was forgotten".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Applications">Applications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Classical times, a variation of the story was annexed to a philosophical problem by <a href="/wiki/Zeno_of_Elea" title="Zeno of Elea">Zeno of Elea</a> in one of many demonstrations that movement is impossible to define satisfactorily. The second of <a href="/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes" title="Zeno's paradoxes">Zeno's paradoxes</a> is that of Achilles and the Tortoise, in which the hero gives the Tortoise a <a href="/wiki/Head_start_(positioning)" title="Head start (positioning)">head start</a> in a race. The argument attempts to show that even though Achilles runs faster than the Tortoise, he will never catch up with her because, when Achilles reaches the point at which the Tortoise started, the Tortoise has advanced some distance beyond; when Achilles arrives at that forward point, the Tortoise has again moved forward. Hence Achilles can never catch the Tortoise, no matter how fast he runs, since the Tortoise will always be moving ahead.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wilson2015_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilson2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The only satisfactory refutation has been mathematical and since then the name of the fable has been applied to the function described in Zeno's paradox. In mathematics and computer science, the <i>tortoise and the hare algorithm</i> is an alternative name for <a href="/wiki/Cycle_detection#Tortoise_and_hare" title="Cycle detection">Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Illustrations_of_the_fable">Illustrations of the fable</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Illustrations of the fable"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grandville_tortoise.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Grandville_tortoise.jpg/220px-Grandville_tortoise.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Grandville_tortoise.jpg/330px-Grandville_tortoise.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Grandville_tortoise.jpg/440px-Grandville_tortoise.jpg 2x" data-file-width="892" data-file-height="696" /></a><figcaption>A 19th-century illustration of <a href="/wiki/Jean_de_La_Fontaine" title="Jean de La Fontaine">La Fontaine's</a> <i>Fables</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Ignace_Isidore_G%C3%A9rard" title="Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard">Jean Grandville</a></figcaption></figure> <p>There is a Greek version of the fable but no early Latin version. For this reason it did not begin to appear in printed editions of Aesop's fables until the 16th century, one of the earliest being Bernard Salomon's <i>Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise</i> (1547).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Versions followed from the Netherlands (in Dutch, 1567) and Flanders (in French, 1578)<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but none in English before <a href="/wiki/Francis_Barlow_(artist)" title="Francis Barlow (artist)">Francis Barlow</a>'s edition of 1667.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the many illustrations of the fable, that by the French caricaturist <a href="/wiki/Jean_Ignace_Isidore_G%C3%A9rard" title="Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard">Jean Grandville</a> is novel in portraying the tortoise as running upright. This is also how he is shown in the <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> cartoon version of "The Tortoise and the Hare" (1935).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another departure from the ordinary in Grandville's etching is the choice of a mole (complete with dark glasses) rather than, as usual, a fox as the judge at the finishing line. Auguste Delierre makes the judge a monkey in the 1883 edition of La Fontaine's fables that he illustrated.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> La Fontaine says in his rhyme that it does not matter who the judge is; his interpreters have taken him at his word. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tortoise_%26_Hare_sculpture,_three_quarter_view.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tortoise_%26_Hare_sculpture%2C_three_quarter_view.jpg/220px-Tortoise_%26_Hare_sculpture%2C_three_quarter_view.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tortoise_%26_Hare_sculpture%2C_three_quarter_view.jpg/330px-Tortoise_%26_Hare_sculpture%2C_three_quarter_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tortoise_%26_Hare_sculpture%2C_three_quarter_view.jpg/440px-Tortoise_%26_Hare_sculpture%2C_three_quarter_view.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4733" data-file-height="3732" /></a><figcaption>The Van Cortlandt Park sculpture with the Tortoise & Hare Café across the street</figcaption></figure> <p>Outside of book production, there is an early 17th-century oil painting of the fable by the Flemish landscape artist <a href="/wiki/Jan_Wildens" title="Jan Wildens">Jan Wildens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hare enters on the left, racing over an upland road as dawn breaks; the tortoise is nowhere in sight. In the mid-19th century, the French animal painter <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert_L%C3%A9on_Couturier" class="extiw" title="fr:Philibert Léon Couturier">Philibert Léon Couturier</a> also devoted an oil painting to the fable in which, as in Grandville's illustration, the tortoise is shown racing upright.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Edward_Bawden" title="Edward Bawden">Edward Bawden</a>'s composite design of 1970 the hare is depicted racing and lying down at various stages of the race while, in contrast to his sprightly rival, the tortoise keeps going.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There have also been two pieces of popular sculpture aimed at children. <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Sch%C3%B6n" title="Nancy Schön">Nancy Schön</a>'s was made to commemorate the centenary of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Marathon" title="Boston Marathon">Boston Marathon</a> in 1996 and is sited in <a href="/wiki/Copley_Square" title="Copley Square">Copley Square</a>, the finishing line for the race.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tortoise is shown determinedly stumping forward while the hare has paused to scratch behind its ear. In the following year a painted steel sculpture by Michael Browne and Stuart Smith was set up near the cross-country finish line at <a href="/wiki/Van_Cortlandt_Park" title="Van Cortlandt Park">Van Cortlandt Park</a> in the Bronx.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hare is mounted on the tortoise's shell and appears to be trying to leap over him. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philately">Philately</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Philately"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The fable has also appeared on stamps from several countries. These include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, in which cartoon characters are depicted on a set of five €0.34 stamps (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey">Dahomey</a>, on a 1972 set commemorating 350 years since La Fontaine's birth, in which it figures on the 10 franc stamp<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominica" title="Dominica">Dominica</a>, on a 2 cent stamp for Easter 1984, picturing a Disney tortoise carrying Easter eggs as it overtakes the sleeping hare<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> issued surcharged <a href="/wiki/Red_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Cross">Red Cross</a> stamps in 1978 on which the fable appeared on the 1 franc + 0.25 denomination.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also included in the 1995 strip of six 2.80 franc stamps commemorating the third centenary of the author's death.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> issued a 1987 set illustrating Aesop's fables, including the tortoise and the hare on the 130 drachma stamp<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> issued a set in 1980 with the fable on the 4 forint stamp<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a> issued a 1990 set in which Disney characters act out the fables; the tortoise and the hare appear on the 15 laree stamp<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a> issued a composite 50 centime stamp on the 350th anniversary of La Fontaine's birth in 1971, with this fable included<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> issued a 5 rupee stamp for Child's broadcasting day 2007 which shows the contestants at the starting line<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_versions">Musical versions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Musical versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables#Musical_treatments" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables § Musical treatments</a></div> <p>Many allusions to the fable in musical titles are of limited or no relevance, but two interpretive instrumental versions may be noted. The one by <a href="/wiki/Yellowjackets_(band)" title="Yellowjackets (band)">Yellowjackets</a> jazz quartet was recorded on their <i><a href="/wiki/Politics_(Yellowjackets_album)" title="Politics (Yellowjackets album)">Politics</a></i> album in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Anglo-Irish band <a href="/wiki/Flook_(band)" title="Flook (band)">Flook</a>'s title is on their <i>Haven</i> album (2005).<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There have also been several verbal settings of Aesop's fable: </p> <ul><li>By W. Langton Williams (c. 1832–1896) in his <i>Aesop's Fables, versified & arranged for the piano forte</i> (London, 1890)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <i>Aesop's Fables Interpreted Through Music</i> for voice and piano (New York, 1920) by Mabel Wood Hill (1870–1954). In this the moral stated is that "Plodding wins the race".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Persichetti" title="Vincent Persichetti">Vincent Persichetti</a> included it as the third piece in his <i>Fables for narrator and orchestra</i> (Op. 23, 1943)</li> <li>A poetic version set for children's voices and piano by Edward Hughes in his <i>Songs from Aesop's Fables</i> (1965)</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Cellist" class="mw-redirect" title="Cellist">cellist</a> Evalyn Steinbock's setting for violin, cello and narrator in 1979</li> <li>As the first of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Plog" title="Anthony Plog">Anthony Plog</a>'s <i>Aesop's Fables</i> for narrator, piano and horn (1989/93), in which the instruments mimic the pace of the animals<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The first of "Aesop's Fables for narrator and band" (1999) by Scott Watson (b. 1964)<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A setting for solo voice by Lucian Cristofor Tugui (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Cosma" title="Vladimir Cosma">Vladimir Cosma</a>, as the sixth piece in <i>Eh bien ! Dansez maintenant</i> (2006), a light-hearted interpretation for narrator and orchestra of <a href="/wiki/La_Fontaine%27s_Fables" title="La Fontaine's Fables">La Fontaine's version</a> in the style of a rustic <a href="/wiki/Polka" title="Polka">polka</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Movement Three of <a href="/wiki/Julie_Giroux" title="Julie Giroux">Julie Giroux</a>'s <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://juliegiroux.www2.50megs.com/sof.html">A Symphony of Fables</a></i>, composed in 2006</li> <li>As one of the five pieces in <a href="/wiki/Bob_Chilcott" title="Bob Chilcott">Bob Chilcott</a>'s <i>Aesop's Fables</i> for piano and choir (2008)<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A setting for <a href="/wiki/A_cappella" title="A cappella">a cappella</a> choir by Darmon Meader (2009)<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>As one of David Edgar Walther's 'short operatic dramas', composed in 2009</li> <li>Among ten on David P Shortland's Australian recording, <i>Aesop Go HipHop</i> (2012), where the sung chorus after the <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop">hip hop</a> narration underlines the fable's moral, "Slow and steady wins the race"<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Folk_variants">Folk variants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Folk variants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The many other variants of the story in oral folk tradition appear worldwide and are classed as Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 275.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In most of these there is a race between unequal partners but most often brain is matched against brawn and the race is won by means of trickery. Broadly this is of two types: either the slower animal jumps on the other's back or tail and hops off at the end when the creature turns round to see where his challenger has got to, or else he is deceived by lookalikes substituting themselves along the course. </p><p>Tales with a similar theme emphasizing doggedness have been recorded in <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> culture. Hummingbird and Crane agree to race from one ocean to the other. Though Hummingbird flies faster, he stops at night to sleep. Crane, however, flies overnight and is overtaken by Hummingbird later and later during the day, at length coming in first. 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.cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/226.htm">"The Tortoise and The Hare"</a>. <i>Mythfolklore.net</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Mythfolklore.net&rft.atitle=The+Tortoise+and+The+Hare&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmythfolklore.net%2Faesopica%2Fperry%2F226.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Tortoise+and+the+Hare" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/tortoise.html">"Story Arts – Aesop's ABC – The Tortoise and The Hare"</a>. <i>storyarts.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=storyarts.org&rft.atitle=Story+Arts+%E2%80%93+Aesop%27s+ABC+%E2%80%93+The+Tortoise+and+The+Hare&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.storyarts.org%2Flibrary%2Faesops%2Fstories%2Ftortoise.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Tortoise+and+the+Hare" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A translation is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/13161/">here</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/237.htm">"237. 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De lepore et testudine (1687), illustrated by Francis Barlow"</a>. <i>Mythfolklore.net</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2012-03-24</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Mythfolklore.net&rft.atitle=70.+De+lepore+et+testudine+%281687%29%2C+illustrated+by+Francis+Barlow&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmythfolklore.net%2Faesopica%2Fbarlow%2F70.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Tortoise+and+the+Hare" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DrKmpuKhKE">"The cartoon can be viewed on YouTube"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2012-03-24</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+cartoon+can+be+viewed+on+YouTube&rft.pub=Youtube.com&rft.date=2008-06-07&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2DrKmpuKhKE&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Tortoise+and+the+Hare" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The preparatory water colour is at the <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_jean_de_la_Fontaine" class="extiw" title="fr:Musée jean de la Fontaine">La Fontaine Museum</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cuniculture.info/Docs/Phototheque/Peinture&Decor/Peintres-D/Delierre-01.jpg">"Photographic image"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(JPG)</span>. <i>Cuniculture.info</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Pepper Sheet Music"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Aesop%27s+Fables+by+Scott+Watson%26%23124%3B+J.W.+Pepper+Sheet+Music&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jwpepper.com%2FAesop%2527s-Fables%2F2702965.item&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Tortoise+and+the+Hare" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">You Tube, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu0pOA6tZs0">The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by the composer</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation audio-visual cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcL_ZzivtrQ"><i>FMHS Jaguar Chorale -- "Aesop's Fables: the Hare and the Tortoise"</i></a>. <i>YouTube</i>. 26 May 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/lcL_ZzivtrQ">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-12-21.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=FMHS+Jaguar+Chorale+--+%22Aesop%27s+Fables%3A+the+Hare+and+the+Tortoise%22&rft.date=2009-05-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlcL_ZzivtrQ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Tortoise+and+the+Hare" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqKTtOOOY_s">"The Tortoise And The Hare"</a>. November 16, 2015 – via YouTube.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Tortoise+And+The+Hare&rft.date=2015-11-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeqKTtOOOY_s&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Tortoise+and+the+Hare" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Slow and Steady" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tvag-Clndc">on YouTube</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0275.html">"The Tortoise and the Hare, and Other Races between Unequal Contestants"</a>. 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/>Fables</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper" title="The Ant and the Grasshopper">The Ant and the Grasshopper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ass_and_his_Masters" title="The Ass and his Masters">The Ass and his Masters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ass_and_the_Pig" title="The Ass and the Pig">The Ass and the Pig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ass_Carrying_an_Image" title="The Ass Carrying an Image">The Ass Carrying an Image</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ass_in_the_Lion%27s_Skin" title="The Ass in the Lion's Skin">The Ass in the Lion's Skin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Astrologer_who_Fell_into_a_Well" title="The Astrologer who Fell into a Well">The Astrologer who Fell into a Well</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Travelers" title="The Bear and the Travelers">The Bear and the Travelers</a></li> <li><a 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Fish">The Fisherman and the Little Fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fowler_and_the_Snake" title="The Fowler and the Snake">The Fowler and the Snake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Crow_(Aesop)" title="The Fox and the Crow (Aesop)">The Fox and the Crow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes" title="The Fox and the Grapes">The Fox and the Grapes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Lion" title="The Fox and the Lion">The Fox and the Lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Mask" title="The Fox and the Mask">The Fox and the Mask</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Sick_Lion" title="The Fox and the Sick Lion">The Fox and the Sick Lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Stork" title="The Fox and the Stork">The Fox and the Stork</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Weasel" title="The Fox and the Weasel">The Fox and the Weasel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Woodman" title="The Fox and the Woodman">The Fox and the Woodman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Frog_and_the_Ox" title="The Frog and the Ox">The Frog and the Ox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Frogs_Who_Desired_a_King" title="The Frogs Who Desired a King">The Frogs Who Desired a King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Goat_and_the_Vine" title="The Goat and the Vine">The Goat and the Vine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs" title="The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs">The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Honest_Woodcutter" title="The Honest Woodcutter">The Honest Woodcutter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Horse_and_the_Donkey" title="The Horse and the Donkey">The Horse and the Donkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Horse_that_Lost_its_Liberty" title="The Horse that Lost its Liberty">The Horse that Lost its Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lion_and_the_Mouse" title="The Lion and the Mouse">The Lion and the Mouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lion,_the_Bear_and_the_Fox" 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