The Story of Cinderella: Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world. The protagonist is a young woman living in terrible circumstances that are suddenly changed via magic or a strange event. The story of Rhodopis is a Greek tale dating back to sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, which is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story. 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…