The fairy-tale itself is (of course) fictional, although the story is based upon the life of an actual historical figure. Another retelling can be found in the work of Roman author Aelian (ca. The story of Rhodopis - a young Greek girl captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Egypt, only to go on to become Pharaoh Amasis' queen - is the earliest known example of the "Cinderella," or persecuted-heroine-type tale (type #510A in the Aarne-Thompson Folklore Classification system), having first been recorded in the work of the Greek geographer Strabo some time in the late first century BC, or early first century AD.
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