Phaedrus and Catullus’ choliambic fable
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2021.v9.33187Keywords:
Phaedrus, Catullus, Calimachus, aesopic fable, choliambic poetryAbstract
The aim of this paper is to compare some features of Phaedrus' poetry (I CE) to those of Catullus, 22. I managed to make such comparisons in the light of the relations set between these two Latin poets and former Greek choliambic poetry. In order to do so, I have previously performed a brief survey regarding those poetic features found in the extant choliambic works of Hipponax (VI CE) and Callimachus (310-240 BCE) which, accordingly, match Phaedrus’ poems’ features. Phaedrus, the fabulist, unlike Catullus, wrote solely in iambic senarius. However, as I present here, this choice did not hinder Phaedrus from following meaningful creative techniques witch which some of the choliambic poets also experimented. One must stress, thereupon, that both Phaedrus and Catullus resumed the Callimachean trace of turning poems into frames for aesthetic criticism by making use of Aesopic fables.
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