Published 2023-06-21
Keywords
- Avianus,
- Latin fable,
- textual criticism,
- intertextuality,
- Plautus
- Lucretius,
- Babrius,
- Aphtho¬nius,
- Lactantius,
- Phaedrus ...More
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Abstract
The article provides critical and exegetical notes on a fable by Avianus (Fab. 3) and an analysis of its literary models; it also offers observations on the ‘Fortleben’ of Plautus (Pseud. 955), Lucretius (6.24-28) and Phaedrus (5.10 Zago), as well as on the text of Babr. 109, Aphthon. Fab. 11 Hausrath, Lact. Inst. 7.27.6-7.