«Las ranas pidiendo rey»: origen y evolución de una fábula política
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1984.v52.i1.712Abstract
Phaedrus places this fable (I 2) within a framework in which Aesopus is the teller of it to the Athenians annoyed by Pisistratus' tyranny. His advice to them is to resign, lest a worst tyranny arrives, as it happened to the frogs. The author understands this doctrine as of cynical origin, and he quotes several cynical fables whose intention is the same. According to the author, the cynics are the ones who created the fable of the frogs from a number of precedents expounded in this paper. He reconstructs, as much as possible, the metrical traces of the original fable of the 3rd century B. C., preserved in the version of the Augustana collection. And he also draws up the stemma of the different versions of this fable.
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1984-06-30
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Adrados, F. R. (1984). «Las ranas pidiendo rey»: origen y evolución de una fábula política. Emerita, 52(1), 25–32. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1984.v52.i1.712
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