The animal fable and Greek iambus: ainoi and half-ainoi in Archilochus
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Animal fable is often discussed as a genre in its own right, associated with moralising, criticism, and popular ideology. 1 Yet any instantiation of a fable in a literary text intersects with the conventions of the host-genre. While fable is found in various ancient genres, it has a particular association with Greek iambus, and Hellenistic and Roman imitators of archaic iambus turn regularly to fable when they want to evoke what is distinctive about the form. 2
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