Victim of the muses : poet as scapegoat, warrior, and hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European myth and history / Todd M. Compton.
| Author/creator | Compton, Todd, 1952- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006. |
| Description | xv, 432 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Hellenic studies ; 11 Hellenic studies ; 11. ^A584134 |
| Contents | The pharmakos in archaic greece -- Aesop : satirist as pharmakos in archaic Greece -- Archilochus : sacred obscenity and judgment -- Hipponax : creating the pharmakos -- Homer : the trial of the rhapsode -- Hesiod : consecrate murder -- Shadows of Hesiod : divine protection and lonely death -- Sappho : the barbed rose -- Alcaeus : poetry, politics, exile -- Theognis : faceless exile -- Tyrtaeus : the lame general -- Aeschylus : little ugly one -- Euripides : sparagmos of an iconoclast -- Aristophanes : satirist versus politician -- Socrates : the new Aesop -- Victim of the muses : mythical poets -- Kissing the leper : the excluded poet in Irish myth -- The stakes of the poet : Starkaðr/suibhne -- The sacrificed poet : Germanic myths -- "Wounded by tooth that drew blood" : the beginnings of satire in Rome -- Naevius : dabunt malum metelli Naevio poetae -- Cicero maledicus, Cicero exul -- Ovid : practicing the studium fatale -- Phaedrus : another fabulist -- Seneca, Petronius, and Lucan : neronian victims -- Juvenal : the burning poet -- Transformations of myth : the poet, society, and the sacred. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-414) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006002331 |
| ISBN | 067401958X |
| ISBN | 9780674019584 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PA3005 .C66 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |