Talk:epimyth
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Ruakh in topic epimyth
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Move to -)? --Connel MacKenzie 19:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I get 34 b.g.c. hits that all seem to use it seriously. It looks like a neologism. --EncycloPetey 19:37, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Nah, this has been around for a while. It's definitely a real word. Widsith 19:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Some citations:
- Jerold C. Frakes, Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary (2004) p. 750:
- [T]he first five fables follow a different sequence in the two texts, which causes a logical problem in the epimyth to fable no. 6 in Wallich's collection; and tale no. 35 from the earlier collection is omitted by Moses Wallich.
- Edward W. Wheatley, Mastering Aesop: medieval education, Chaucer and his followers (2000) p. 227:
- [P]resumably the “man of education” did not reproduce the epimyth of the fable, which warns that one should always anticipate the result of one's actions.
- Reb Moshe Walich, Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt Am Main, 1697 (1994) p. 19:
- In principle each fable in the collection is divided into two parts: the narrative itself, followed by an explicit moral or epimyth.
- ...
- In most of the fables the length of the epimyth ranges between six and twelve lines.
- Daniele Vare, The Quarterly Review (1934) p. 448:
- [I]t is the Odyssean episode with a Christian epimyth.
- William Fleming, Henry Calderwood, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences (1881) p. 664:
- The epimyth, coming after the fable, the moral.
- Jerold C. Frakes, Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary (2004) p. 750:
RFV passed, thanks. —RuakhTALK 03:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)