Rhodopis hurriedly tucked her other slipper inside her tunic, and when she had finished her work, she walked home. Now at the pharaoh's court, just as the celebration began, a falcon flew down and ...

Now a children's book titled The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo, Rhodopis is an Egyptian tale that's widely accepted as the earliest Cinderella story based on a real person from the first ...

The story of Cinderella is substantially the same as that told of Rhodopis and Psammitichus by Elian, who lived in Rome in the third century of the Christian era. The story, as told by Elian ...

Ms. Naidoo describes the travails of a lovely Greek redhead who marries the king of Egypt. Rhodopis, so named for her rosy cheeks, is tending goats in the mountains of northern Greece when she is ...

The first references to the tale of a rags-to-riches beauty with a lost shoe can be traced back to sixth-century Greece, in Rhodopis, a story about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt.

Rhodopis, told by Greek geographer Strabo in the first century, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is often thought to be the earliest known version on Cinderella's story.