Enseñar fabulando en Grecia y Roma: los testimonios papiráceos

Abstract

The aim of the article is, first, to assemble the highest number of fable samples identified in school papyri, tablets, parchments and ostraka; secondly, to study them attending not as much to their usual function as writing exercises, their teachig of ethics or the difficult reconstruction of their textual stemma, as usual, as to the fact that most of the samples don’t coincide with the version attributed to Aesop or Babrius (or Phaedrus), but they are prose paraphrases. So writing exercises show to serve at the same time to anticipate elaboration forms of the progymnasma called fabula, assuring therewith the presence of the ethical and cultural message along the educational system throughout the Greek and then the Roman Empire.