Talk:epimyth

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epimyth

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:

1. 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.

bd2412 T 00:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

RFV passed, thanks. —Ruakh_TALK 03:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)