The She-Goats having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equaled them in dignity. “Allow them,” said Jupiter, “to enjoy an empty honor and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, whose fables have been retold and translated across cultures for over two millennia. "The She-Goats and Their Beards" is one of his more socially pointed tales, using the comic image of bearded goats to probe timeless tensions around status and imitation.
