Anonymous (Egypt) — The Satire of the Trades (The Instruction of Kheti)

This ancient Egyptian text, known as The Satire of the Trades or The Instruction of Kheti, is an anonymous work of wisdom literature. It humorously describes various professions, highlighting their hardships compared to the scribe's life.

Sources for Anonymous (Egypt) — The Satire of the Trades (The Instruction of Kheti)

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20190308063715/http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/instructions_of_kheti.htm
• https://archive.org/details/literatureofanci00ermauoft

Anonymous (Egypt) — The Satire of the Trades (The Instruction of Kheti) in Satire

Held in the Satire chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Aristophanes — The Birds (c. 414 BCE)
• Aristophanes — The Clouds (c. 423 BCE)
• Lucian of Samosata — A True History (Verae Historiae) (c. 175 CE)
• Horace — Satires, Epistles, and the Art of Poetry (c. 35 BCE)
• François Rabelais — Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
• Desiderius Erasmus — The Praise of Folly (1511)
• Thomas More — Utopia (1516)
• Jonathan Swift — Gulliver's Travels (1726)
• Voltaire — Candide, or Optimism (1759)
• Mark Twain — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
• Ambrose Bierce — The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
• Oscar Wilde — The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)