THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE.

The BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE is an epic or parody of The Illiad, attributed to the blind poet Homer, by the Romans.
The Germans has used the parody to describe disputes such as the one between The School of Math and The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton, NJ, USA.
It is an independent post doctoral research centre for theoretical research and intellectual inquire.

PLOT: A MOUSE drinking water from a Lake MEETS the FROG king, who invites him to his house.
As the FROG king SWIMS ACROSS the Lake, the MOUSE, who does not know how to swim, SITS ON HIS BACK.
While on the water, THEY ARE CONFRONTED BY A FRIGHTENING WATER SNAKE. As a way to save his life, the FROG DIVES, FORGETTING about the MOUSE, who DROWNS.
Another MOUSE WITNESSES the scene FROM THE BANK of the Lake, and RUNS TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT.
The LAND of the MICE ARM THEMSELVES FOR BATTLE to AVENGE the FROG king's TREACHERY, and SEND A HERALD to the LAND of the FROGS with a DECLARATION OF WAR.
The FROGS BLAME THEIR KING, who ALTOGETHER DENIES the INCIDENT.

In the meantime, ZEUS, seeing the brewing war, PROPOSES that the gods take sides, and specifically that ATHENA help the MICE.
Athena was the goddess of Wisdom, Courage, Inspiration, Civilization, Law and Justice, Just Warfare, Mathematics, Strength, Strategy, The Arts, Crafts, and Skill.
Athena refuses, saying that MICE have done her a lot of mischief. Eventually the GODS DECIDE TO WATCH RATHER THAN GET INVOLVED.
A BATTLE ensued and the MICE PREVAIL.
ZEUS summons a FORCE OF CRABS TO PREVENT COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THE FROGS.
Powerless against the armored CRABS, the MICE RETREATS, and the ONE-DAY WAR ENDS AT SUNDOWN.

THE ANT and THE GRASSHOPPER

In the world of the ancient Greeks, agriculture were diverse and healthy and indigenous plants and insect colonies shared the same field. As a result, the fields of wheat and grapes were filled with a variety of vigorous, forward-looking, and well-spoken insects. the most industrious of these were the ant. All summer the ant worked in the hot sun, storing away grain and seeds in anticipation of a long winter.
In that same field lived a grasshopper whose life were very free from care. To him, the ideal existence was to enjoy nature in an unstructured and playfully exploratory manner. He often took advantage of this way of thinking by sleeping most of the day. At other times, he would sing joyfully in the meadow.
This attitude did not go unnoticed by the ant. Also the grasshopper mused himself just watching the ant working so hard. The grasshopper tried to keep his leisure-centric lifestyle attuned to the passing of the seasons.
But winter arrived early that year and the fields were quickly barren. The unfortunate grasshopper found himself a victim of the meteorological change. He went hopping about the field looking for sustenance of any kind, but nothing edible could be found.
Soon the grasshopper spotted the ant, lustily dragging a full cornstalk behind him. He walked over, intending to ask the ant to share a little of his immense hoard. But as soon as the ant caught sight of the grasshopper, the ant begun to scream for help. The grasshopper said to the ant that she had more than it possibly eat. But the ant responded negatively to him. The ant tried to make the grasshopper reasoned to his perspective about the free market that nature brings but bounded to the weather not all the time this free nature is accessible.
The ant and the grasshopper were interrupted in their fruitless debate by a huge mantis bigger than the two of them put together. The ant and the grasshopper were frightened by the nonsense-free aspect of his appearance. The praying mantis told the ant that he was auditing the personal production of the year.
The situation that the insect's hoard produced was appropriate to the mantis to suggest more community policies to the use of the field's production and the grasshopper, known for his unstructured way of life, was asked to organize a program for young insects, eager for cultural interchange with the same mentality as the grasshopper, to enjoy surfing in warmer climates.

FLATTERERS CAN'T BE TRUSTED.

THE FOX AND THE CROW
by Aesop

A Crow stole a good-size piece of cheese from a cottage window and had flown with it into a tall tree.
A Fox, who was observing the whole thing, said to himself : "If I am smart enough, I will have cheese for supper tonight."
The Fox spent time thinking and then he crafted a plan.

Then during the afternoon, the fox met the crow and said: "Good afternoon, Miss Crow, how really beautiful you look today. I have never seen your feathers so glistening. Your neck is as grateful as a swan's and your wings are mightier than an eagle's. I am sure that if you had a voice, you would sing as sweetly as a nightingale."

The Crow, pleased with such as flattering praise, wanted to prove that she could sing. A soon as she opened her mouth to make such a sound, the cheese fell to the ground and immediately the Fox snapped it up.

As the Crow trotted off, he went thinking about what to say, he made things worse by calling back to the Crow and say : "I may have talked much about your beauty, but I said nothing about your brains."

Theseus and the Minotaur Part 2

Then she loved him all the more, and said: "But when you have killed him, how will you find your way out of the labyrinth?" He said: "I know not, neither do I care; but it must be a strange road, if I do not find it out before I have eaten up the monster's carcass."
Then she loved him all the more, and said: "Fair youth, you are too bold; but I can help you, weak as I am. I will give you a sword, and with that you may slay the beast; and a clue of thread, and by that, you may find your way out again. Only promise me that if you escape safe you will take me with you to Greece; for my father will kill me, if he knows what I have done."
When the evening came, the guards led him to the labyrinth. he went in and fastened his clue to a stone, and left it to unroll out of his hand as he went on; and it lasted until he met the beast. When he saw it he stopped awhile, for he had never seen something like that. His body was a man's; but his head was the head of a bull, and his teeth were the teeth of a lion.
When the beast saw him it roared and put his head down and rushed right at him. Theseus stepped aside and wounded the beast with the sword. The monster fled wildly and Theseus followed him at full speed, holding the clue of thread in his left hand. At last, he caught the beast by the horns and drove the sword through his throat. Then he went his way down by the clue of thread and when he reached the end of the thread, he saw Ariadne waiting for him.
She led him to the prison's door and opened it up, and set all the prisoners free, while the guards lay sleeping heavily; for she had silenced them with wine. Then they fled to their ship together; and the night lay dark around them, so that they passed through Minos' ships and escaped all safe to Naxos; and there Ariadne became Theseus' wife.
But Ariadne never came to Athens with her husband.     Theseus forgot to put up the white sail.
Aegeus his father sat and watched on day after day, and when he saw the black sail, and not the white one, he gave up Theseus for dead, and in his grief he fell into the sea, and died; so it is called the Aegean to this day. And now Theseus as king of Athens, he guarded and ruled it well.

THESEUS and the MINOTAUR part 1

Long ago, in Athens, ruled a king called Aegeus, and his son Theseus. Minos, king of Crete, had fought against the Athenians. He won and before returning to Crete he had made a cruel law to maintain peace.
Each year the Athenians were forced to send seven young men and seven young women to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. This was a monster who lived in the labyrinth placed at the shores of Crete.
Theseus determined to make an end of the beast, he went and told his father Aegeus.
The father wasn't please with the fact that he had to go defenseless and naked like the rest of the people.
Spring came and as usual, seven young men and seven young women, chosen by lot, journeyed in a ship with black sails, to be torn in pieces by the savage Minotaur. Theseus offered himself to the herald in charge, and was taken as part of the sacrifice. His father made him promise to take care of himself and in the event that he succeeded, he had to take down the black sail of the ship and hoist instead a white one, in that way he would know afar that he is safe.
The journey began, he whispered to his companions:"Have hope, for the monster is not immortal."
At last, they arrived to Crete, and to Cnossus, beneath the peaks of Ida, and to the palace of Minos, to whom Zeus himself taught laws. Minus was the wisest of all mortal kings, and conquered all the Aegean isles; and his ships were as many as the sea-gulls, and his palace like a marble hill.
Theseus stood before Minos and cried: " O Minos! Let me be thrown first to the beast. For I came to that very purpose, of my own will, and not by lot. I am the son of whom you hates the most, Aegeus the king of Athens, and I am com here to end this matter. I have sworn that I will not go back till I have seen the monster face to face."
Minos frowned and said: "Then you shall see him." Then they led Theseus away. But Ariadne, Mino's
daughter, saw him, as she came out of her white stone hall; and she loved him for his courage. By night she went down to the prison and told him: "Flee down to your ship at once, for I have bribed the guards before the door. Flee, you and all your friends, and go back in peace to Greece; and take me with you!
I dare not stay after you are gone; for my father will kill me if he knows what I have done."
Theseus stood silent awhile; for he was astonished and confounded by her beauty; but at last he said:
"I cannot go home in peace, till I have seen and slain this Minotaur, and avenged the deaths of the youths and girls, and put an end to the terrors of my land."