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Wiener Studien Band 138/2025Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
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Wiener Studien 138/2025, pp. 79-86, 2025/07/21
Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
The world of the fable is usually linked in the collective unconscious to the feeling for nature, more specifically since La Fontaine. Some critics, albeit without analysing the issue in depth, have argued that such an attachment to the natural world was missing from Phaedrus’ collection. A detailed examination of the way the fabulist tackles the theme of the seasons, scarcely present in his works, allows us to confirm, illustrate, and better understand this peculiarity. The writer prefers to focus on, show, and criticise human behaviour than to describe at length natural phenomena independent from the core of his subject.