Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
ZEUS AND THE TORTOISE
Zeus invited all the animals to his wedding. The tortoise alone was absent,
and Zeus did not know why, so he asked the tortoise her reason for not having
come to the feast. The tortoise said, 'Be it ever so humble, there's no place
like home.' Zeus got angry at the tortoise and ordered her to carry her house
with her wherever she went.
The fable shows that people often prefer to live simply at home than to
live lavishly at someone else's house. |
 Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New
cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.
Perry 106: Gibbs (Oxford) 508 [English]
Perry 106: L'Estrange 184 [English]
Perry 106: Chambry 125 [Greek]
You can find a compilation of Perry's index to the Aesopica in the gigantic appendix to his
edition of Babrius and Phaedrus for the Loeb Classical Library
(Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1965). This book is an absolute must for anyone interested
in the Aesopic fable tradition. Invaluable.
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