Ancient Fables – Sour Grapes?
Gärtner, Ursula / Spielhofer, Lukas![Ancient Fables – Sour Grapes?](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/438/43800722/CHSBZCOP0343800722.jpg)
For a long time, research into the ancient fable, a genre that substantially influenced the development of modern literature, was limited almost exclusively to questions of textual transmission or the reception of motifs. In recent years, however, classicists have expanded these approaches by looking at fables as literary works of art with an innate poetic and cultural value. This current wave of research has prompted renewed interest in ancie...