A comparative approach to beast fables in Greek songmaking, Part 1: A would-be Aesopic werewolf
2019.05.31 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In a work of mine on fables, dating back to 2011, I noted a distinction made in the ancient world between two kinds of fable. In the first kind, ordinarily known as the ‘Aesopic’ fable, the storytelling concentrates on animals as characters—from here on I refer to them generically as beasts—whereas the characters we find in the second kind of fable, known as ‘Sybaritic’,… Read more