Types of Women women to different animals in the poem is not an invention of Semonides, but seems to have been based on a pre-existing folk tale. Aesop's fables were attributed in ancient Greece to the sixth-century BCE slave of that name, but many of them are likely to be much older than that; one of these fables, that of Zeus and Prometheus, has a similar premise to Semonides' poem, and may have been known to him. Later poets tell similar stories, probably also inspired by these folktales. An elegiac fragment by Phocylides describes women as having originated from one of four different
Storyteller (Silko book) most commonly anthologized stories from "Storyteller" are "Yellow Woman", "Lullaby" and "Tony's Story". It is one of her best-known works, alongside "Ceremony" and "Almanac of the Dead". The format and writing style featured in "Storyteller" would influence some of Silko's later works such as "Sacred Water" (1993) and "Rain" (1997). "Storyteller" has received several critical studies including: Storyteller (Silko book) Storyteller is a hybrid collection of poetry, short stories and family photographs compiled by Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko. It was first published in 1981 following the literary success of the novel Ceremony. "Storyteller" is a collection of short