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In the world of sports, 'a Cinderella' is used for an underrated team or club winning over stronger and more favored competitors. The word Cinderella has, by analogy, come to mean someone whose attributes are unrecognized, or someone unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. Another version was later published as Aschenputtel by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1812.Īlthough the story's title and main character's name change in different languages, in English-language folklore Cinderella is an archetypal name. The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634 the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697.

The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.

The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage.

' Cinderella', or ' The Little Glass Slipper', is a folk tale with thousands of variants that is told throughout the world.

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