The Fiddler

The fable of the Grasshopper and the Ant tells of a grasshopper who spent the summer singing and dancing while an ant worked hard storing food for the winter. When winter arrives and the grasshopper is hungry, he asks the ant for help, but the ant rebukes him for his idleness and tells him to dance the winter away. The fable is credited to Aesop. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day.