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The Old Man and his Sons, sometimes alternatively titled The Bundle of Sticks, is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 53 in the Perry Index. The actions described in it have been attributed to several later rulers and its political moral that there is strength in unity has been consistently commented on over the centuries. ==The Fable== A father has a number of sons who constantly quarrel with each other. As he nears death he calls them to him and gives them an object lesson in the need for unity. Having bound a bundle of sticks together (or in other accounts either spears or arrows), he asks his sons to break them. When they fail, he undoes the bundle and either breaks each stick singly or gets his sons to do so. In the same way, he teaches them, though each can be overcome alone, they are invincible combined. The fable was included by Babrius in his collection. Later still the story was told of King Scilurus of Scythia and his 80 sons in ''Sayings of kings and commanders'' by Pseudo-Plutarch〔(p.174 )〕 and of other barbarian kings by other authors. The story also travelled eastwards. It may appear in mediaeval Turkic manuscript fragments and on a Sogdian mural.〔(Vitterhetsakad.se )〕 Having entered Central Asian folklore, the story was also told of local chieftains and associated with Genghis Khan.〔("The Sons and the Spears", click on folklore )〕
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