Western Classicism came to Ming China through various channels including re-interpretations of “Aesop and His Tongues,” “Damon and Pythias,” and “The Sword of Damocles.” This paper traces ideas in these legends to sources in the Christian Bible and its related texts, and demonstrates how Jesuits recast these stories as vehicles for evangelizing Ming-dynasty intellectuals, with an obvious, ethical comparison of them with traditional Chinese texts.
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