Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
ZEUS AND SHAME
After he had created people, Zeus immediately implanted in
them all the possible human character traits, but he forgot about
Shame. Since he didn't know how to get Shame inside the human
body, he ordered her to go in from behind. At first Shame protested,
considering Zeus's request to be beneath her dignity. When Zeus
kept insisting, she said, 'All right, I will go in there, on
the condition that if anything comes in there after me, I will
leave immediately.' As a result, people who engage in sodomy
have no sense of shame.
This fable can be used for a sodomite. |
 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 109: Gibbs (Oxford) 528 [English]
Perry 109: L'Estrange 185 [English]
Perry 109: Chambry 118 [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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