Ambrose Bierce has two variant of the tale in his "Fantastic Fable". The best examples of the fable in India are the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. It was loosely based on the classic fable by Aesop. Perhaps the best known story about a swan is "The Ugly Duckling" fable. Starfox initially wrote this off as fable and folklore. The latter sentiment is made the moral in Medieval versions of the fable. The playwright's lawyer described the play as "a satirical fable on capitalism". He relates The Tower to a Greek fable about avarice. He voiced Major Swift in the Xbox 360 game "Fable III". There is a Greek version of the fable but no early Latin version. Taken as a fable, it's enchanting. The treasure in the fable may well symbolise democracy. Author John Orr characterizes the film as a "modernist fable". Tsereteli portrayed Armenians as a flea sucking Georgian blood in one fable. It is based on an eponymous Alpine fable.