Rhodopis and the Rose Slipper — North Africa & Maghreb (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to ancient Egypt, to the banks of the Nile, for what may be the very first Cinderella story ever told. A foreign servant girl, mocked and left behind by the others, owns one precious thing: a pair of rose-red dancing slippers. When a falcon carries one of them tothe Pharaoh's lap in far-off Memphis, a search begins that will change her life. The oldest glass-slipper tale of them all, long before the glass.
Greco-Egyptian tradition, ancient Egypt (North Africa). The tale of Rhodopis is widely regarded as the earliest known variant of "Cinderella." It was first recorded by the…
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