Innovation and Artistry in Phaedrus’ Morals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9320549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy B Lefkowitz (Swarthmore College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 417-435 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mnemosyne (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1568525x-12342148 |
| OpenAlex | W2528440239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
In his creative and original deployment of the ‘morals’ attached to his fables, Phaedrus boldly asserts his independence from the prosaic fable tradition and embeds his work within the framework of a broadly fictionalized poetic career. While pro - and epimythia in Phaedrus have attracted scholarly attention as aides in calculating his chronology or deciphering his perspective on life in Rome, Phaedrian ‘morals’ do more than express a particular historical or socio-political outlook. Indeed, in his morals Phaedrus repeatedly challenges the idea that fables carry any universal or even coherent meaning, and in so doing he transforms the traditional framing devices into sites for the development of his complex poetic persona
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Fable · Framing (construction · Humanities · Literature · Meaning (existential · Persona · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy
History of the Graeco-Latin Fable
Borrowed Plumes
Phaedrus
The Best of the Achaeans
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life
What ‘Lies’ Behind Phaedrus’ Fables
How Phaedrus’s Fables ‘Mean’
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque
Polity Across the Pond
Theory and Terminology of the Greek Fable
Phaedrus' Fables
Phaedrus The Fabulous
Telling Tales on Caesar
Polity Across the Pond
Private and Public Lies
The Intersection of Poetic and Imperial Authority in Phaedrus' Fables
Ethics in Aesop's Fables
Making Mockery
Aesop and Animal Fable
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |