myth-and-moral

This chapter recounts a fable set in ancient times about a Thracian freighter's mascot monkey who is saved by a dolphin after a shipwreck. The monkey tries to deceive the dolphin by claiming to be a man of Athens and fabricates a story about knowing Piraeus, but the dolphin sees through the lie and abandons the monkey to drown. The story concludes with a moral warning about the dangers of pretending to be something one is not.