In the prologues and epilogues to his Fables, Phaedrus despite the low reputation of the genre develops a complex if at times inconsistent poetics. The ambivalences and contradictory nature of his poetics are part of the fabulist's self-presentation, whereby certain figures, such as Aesop the trickster, the donkey, and even divine figures such as Prometheus play central role.

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Johannes Park, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.