TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gärtner, Ursula
T1  - nempe exemplis discimus
BT  - tradition and example in Phaedrus (3.9)
JF  - Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster : Zwischen Exemplarität und Transformation
N2  - ‘Tradition’ and ‘example’ are key concepts of the ancient fable. The fable has not only developed a literary tradition of its own, but from the beginning, it was also used as a rhetorical device, the exemplum. A diachronic overview of the genre and especially the use of the fable as exemplum reveals that Phaedrus adapts these terms in a new and ingenious way. In a case study of fable 3.9 this paper demonstrates how the fable finds its place in the literary tradition of the motif, how Socrates is presented as a model for the poet’s persona and how an intricate network of inter- and intratextual references is established between Socrates, Aesop, Phaedrus, and his potential successors. The subtle irony of the poet is particularly evident in the gradual development of the poet’s persona into a caricature, but the message of the fable itself remains unaffected: the value of true friendship.
KW  - Poetic criticism
KW  - literary tradition
KW  - poet-persona
KW  - fiction and reality
KW  - reader expectations
KW  - friendship
KW  - human behaviour
KW  - rhetorical exemplum
KW  - promythion
KW  - epimythion
KW  - memoria
KW  - mos
KW  - Aesop
KW  - Socrates
KW  - Plato
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-11-061251-6
SN  - 978-3-11-061011-6
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612516-022
SN  - 1616-0452
VL  - 374
SP  - 455
EP  - 472
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -