Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. In cothurnis prodit Aesopus nouis: Ancient Fable and the Literary Genres 1
5. Part I: Fable and Epic
6. Hesiod’s Fable of “The Hawk and the Nightingale” (Op. 202–212) 19
7. Taming the Lion/Feeding the Beast: Homeric Fables and the Ethics of Epic 45
8. Part II: Fable and Elegy
9. The Fables of Avianus: Intersection of Genres and Textual Criticism 67
10. Peruigil ante fores, irrita uota gerens: Avianus’ Fables and Roman Love Elegy 81
11. Part III: Fable and Comedy
12. Not For Beetle Brains: Fables in Aristophanes 101
13. Comedy in Phaedrus’ Fables: seruus, meretrix, anus, iuuenis, miles in fabula 117
14. Phaedrus and the Latin Mime: Preliminary Remarks 143
15. Part IV: Fable and Prose Genres
16. Clever Creatures: How Phaedrus Parallels Natural History in His Fables 157
17. The Ideal Philosopher as “Fabulator”: Socratic-Platonic Variations on Aesop in the Phaedo 181
18. From λόγος to μῦθος: Babrius’ Fabulous Poetics 203
19. The Use of Animal Fable in Ancient Oratory: Reality or Fiction? 229
20. Nemo aliquid ualet sine suis: Classical and Medieval Latin Versions of “The Belly and the Members” across Literary Genres 249
21. Part V: Fable and Ancient Novel
22. Crossings between Fable and Novel: Some Examples from Phaedrus and Apuleius 269
23. Part VI: Fable and Epigram
24. Of Lions and Eunuchs: The Fables of Babrius between Epic and Epigram 299
25. Epigrammatic Elements in the Fables of Avianus 327
26. Between Babrius and Ignatios, between Fable and Metaphrasis: Rephrasing in Byzantine Dodecasyllables 349
27. Part VII: Fable and Christian Genres
28. St. Gregory of Nazianzus and Fables: Between Epistles and Epigrams 371
29. “And Jesus Told Them a Fable”: On Methods and Motivations for Embedding Fables in the Gospels 389
30. The Role of Animals in the Acta Thomae 415
31. List of Contributors 435
32. Index of Passages
33. General Index