Ancient Fables and Literary Genres
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Edited by:
Ursula Gärtner
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Funded by:
Universitätsbibliothek Universität Graz
About this book
Ancient fables have come down to us in many forms: They were published as fable collections both in prose and verse or embedded in literary works of other genres. The contributions to this volume shed light on the interaction between fables and these literary genres and give an overview of fables from early Greek to medieval literature. They seek to ask what role fables play in individual genres, and which genres in turn find an echo in fables.
In the case of fables embedded in other genres, the contributions ask as to which fables are chosen for which theme or genre and how they relate to it, how fables are adapted in other texts, how these embeddings are marked at a textual level, and what purpose they serve. In the case of other genres influencing fable collections, the volume illustrates how fables deal with the question of genre more generally but also with specific works or authors, how they approximate and, at the same time, distinguish themselves from these influences, what the aim of this approximation might be and through which means references to genres are made.
The 21 contributions by internationally renowned fable scholars provide, for the first time, an overview of the interaction of fables and other genres.
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Topics
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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In cothurnis prodit Aesopus nouis: Ancient Fable and the Literary Genres
1 - Part I: Fable and Epic
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Hesiod’s Fable of “The Hawk and the Nightingale” (Op. 202–212)
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Taming the Lion/Feeding the Beast: Homeric Fables and the Ethics of Epic
45 - Part II: Fable and Elegy
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The Fables of Avianus: Intersection of Genres and Textual Criticism
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Peruigil ante fores, irrita uota gerens: Avianus’ Fables and Roman Love Elegy
81 - Part III: Fable and Comedy
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Not For Beetle Brains: Fables in Aristophanes
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Comedy in Phaedrus’ Fables: seruus, meretrix, anus, iuuenis, miles in fabula
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Phaedrus and the Latin Mime: Preliminary Remarks
143 - Part IV: Fable and Prose Genres
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Clever Creatures: How Phaedrus Parallels Natural History in His Fables
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The Ideal Philosopher as “Fabulator”: Socratic-Platonic Variations on Aesop in the Phaedo
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From λόγος to μῦθος: Babrius’ Fabulous Poetics
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The Use of Animal Fable in Ancient Oratory: Reality or Fiction?
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Nemo aliquid ualet sine suis: Classical and Medieval Latin Versions of “The Belly and the Members” across Literary Genres
249 - Part V: Fable and Ancient Novel
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Crossings between Fable and Novel: Some Examples from Phaedrus and Apuleius
269 - Part VI: Fable and Epigram
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Of Lions and Eunuchs: The Fables of Babrius between Epic and Epigram
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Epigrammatic Elements in the Fables of Avianus
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Between Babrius and Ignatios, between Fable and Metaphrasis: Rephrasing in Byzantine Dodecasyllables
349 - Part VII: Fable and Christian Genres
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St. Gregory of Nazianzus and Fables: Between Epistles and Epigrams
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“And Jesus Told Them a Fable”: On Methods and Motivations for Embedding Fables in the Gospels
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The Role of Animals in the Acta Thomae
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List of Contributors
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Index of Passages
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General Index
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