Child with the fox
The child with the fox is an anecdote brought back by Plutarque ( Vie of Lycurgue , XVIII, 1), which becomes very popular in the Antiquité:
“The children take the flight so much with serious that one of them, says one, which had concealed a renardeau and hid it in its coat, left itself, not to be taken, tear the belly by the claws and the teeth of the animal without stumbling: he died about it. ”
The anecdote becomes symbol of the rigors of the education Spartan. Its popularity comes from the morbid attraction, in the world hellenistic and Roman, for the strangeness of Sparte, which in its turn puts forward its strangest habits at the rest of the world. Besides Plutarque compares this anecdote with the ritual of the diamastigosis , the scourging of the young people to the Sanctuaire of Artémis Orthia, which attracts crowd of tourists.
Victor Hugo referred there in its poem “Since it rained with the Lord” in his collection the interior Voices .
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