Meaning of epimyth | Babel Free

Definitions

The moral of a story.

Examples

“The epimyth, coming after the fable, the moral.”

“[I]t is the Odyssean episode with a Christian epimyth.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“[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.”

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