It was loosely based on the classic fable by Aesop.
This graphic novel brings the classic fable to life with a new character: the pilot (a stand-in for the original author) who crash-lands on the Prince's planet.
This was a righteous claim by Moffat to establish Who as easily the equal of those classic fables (just, you know, with spaceships).
The comic draws inspiration from many literary classics, like Cyrano de Bergerac and Molière's works, but also from many classic fables, fairy tales, and even modern pop-culture.
Prince Saiful Mulook and Badi-ul- Jamal is a classic fable from the Hazara region of Pakistan.
Beautifully acted, with a superb teleplay by Bill Cain, the film has the resonance of a classic fable.
This operatic re-envisioning of Kafka's classic fable, from the composer Philip Glass, becomes as much an allegory of the artistic imagination as of crime and punishment.
My school put on a huge play, a classic Danish fable about a drunken farmer.
William Tell: Based on the classic fable, this stunt involved one player using bows to launch toilet plungers towards a plexiglass wall, with a circle on it representing a target.
This moving story, which pits the boy's rationalist father against his religiously devout aunt as spiritual influences, is a classic fable of hubris.