Proportion

Stories with the Proportion theme:

• Mercury and the Man Bitten by an Ant Jul 28, 2025

  

  In the golden age of ancient Greece, when gods still walked among mortals and the boundary between heaven and earth was thinner than it is today, there lived a man in a small village nestled between rolling hills and ancient olive groves. This man was known throughout the village for his extreme reactions to even the smallest slights and injuries.

  One bright summer morning, the man was sitting beneath an old oak tree, enjoying the cool shade as he prepared to eat the simple meal he had packed for his midday repast. He had just laid out his bread, cheese, and olives on a cloth when a tiny ant, no bigger than a grain of barley, crawled onto his hand and bit him.