The Egyptians were quite fond of fables and they veiled in them much of their knowledge and philosophy. In the story about a mouse who became a vizier, correcting injustice with another injustice angered the king so much that he declared that all mice would live underground forevermore. In the kingdom of the animals there…
Storytelling in Ancient Egypt
The use of a frame story, which serves as a framework within which a number of other stories are told, is a very popular technique in storytelling. The collection of One Thousand and One Nights is a classic famous example, but the technique has a longer history with many of these stories coming from India,…