History of the Graeco-Latin FableSpanning from Sumer to the present day few literary genres show greater continuity throughout their history than the fable. Historical evidence reaching as far back as Antiquity, supports the study of more than 500 works considered to be fables. This translation of the original Spanish, standard work on the fable, traces the history of the Graeco-Latin fable, investigates its origins, reconstructs lost collections from the Hellenistic Age, and establishes relationships between the fablist of the Imperial Age and the study of Medieval, Greek and Latin fables. Supplements at the end of each chapter have been added, giving information on a new bibliography and some new data, together with references to subsequent studies. |
Contents
Terminology of the Ancient Fable | 3 |
Definition of the GraecoLatin Fable | 17 |
More Information for the Definition of the Fable | 28 |
Phaedrus | 29 |
The Anomalous Fables | 37 |
General Inventory of the GraecoLatin | 48 |
The Augustana Collection | 67 |
Other Collections of Ancient Fables | 128 |
by Demetrius | 421 |
The Problem of the Age of Epimythia | 443 |
Inventory and Reconstruction of the Fables | 465 |
Contributions to an Inventory of Demetrius | 483 |
Examples from Other Fables | 491 |
Supplement | 497 |
The New Panorama of the Fable | 501 |
The Animal and Vegetable Fable in | 511 |
Conclusions | 136 |
Origins of Animalistic Themes in the Festival | 218 |
Mimesis | 224 |
Animalistic Themes Neither Literary Nor Religious | 231 |
Supplement | 239 |
The Fable Within the Themes and Types | 248 |
The Poets as Comic Characters | 265 |
Aesop and the Greek Fable | 271 |
Conclusion | 284 |
Oriental Fable and Greek Fable | 333 |
Supplement | 365 |
Catalogue of the Archaic and Classical Greek Fable | 396 |
Supplement | 407 |
Exemplification | 519 |
Supplement | 536 |
Formulas | 549 |
189 | 560 |
Metrical Characteristics and Collections | 566 |
Scheme of the Hellenistic Fable | 600 |
of Fables | 635 |
Conclusion | 641 |
The Life of Aesop | 647 |
Cynic Origin and Character of the Life of Aesop | 665 |
Supplement | 684 |
Influence of the Greek Fable on the Egyptian Fable | 710 |
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