Unicorn or No Unicorn : Stephanites and Ichnelates, Prol. 3.10.

This paper offers a detailed analysis of Stephanites and Ichnelates, Prol. 3.10, which transmits the well-known fable of the "Man in the Well", and argues that the motif of the unicorn was originally absent from the text, but entered the text tradition of the Eugenian recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates through cross-copying with another oriental tale in translation, Barlaam and Joasaph. In order to demonstrate this, the passage is divided into seventeen text units and different versions of the Eugenian recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates, its Latin translation and the Arabic original are juxtaposed, and are then compared line by line. [Publisher's text]