Cultivating the muse : struggles for power and inspiration in classical literature / edited by Efrossini Spentzou and Don Fowler.

Other author Spentzou, Efrossini.
Other author Fowler, Don, 1953-1999.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Descriptionviii, 312 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Muses (Greek deities)--Congresses.
Inspiration in literature--Congresses.
Greek literature--History and criticism. --Congresses.
Latin literature--History and criticism. --Congresses.

Contents Introduction: secularizing the muse / Efrossini Spentzou -- Plato's muses: the goddesses that endure / Penelope Murray -- The envied muse: Plato versus Homer / Adriana Cavarero -- Reinscribing the muse: Greek drama and the discourse of inspired creativity / Ismene Lada-Richards -- Stealing Apollo's lyre: muses and poetic [Greek] in Apollonius' Argonautica 3 / Efrossini Spentzou -- Authority and ontology of the muses in epic reception / Andrew Laird -- Masculinity under threat? The poetics and and politics of inspiration in Latin poetry / Don Fowler -- The untouched self: Sapphic and Catullan muses in Horace, Odes 1.22 / Ronnie Ancona -- The muse unruly and dead: Acanthis in Propertius 4.5 / Micaela Janan -- An a-musing tale: gender, genre, and Ovid's battles with inspiration in the Metamorphoses / Alison Sharrock -- Muse and power in the poetry of Statius / Gianpiero Rosati -- Corny copa: the motel muse / John Henderson.
General noteIncludes papers from the conference Cultivating the Muse : Power, Desire and Inspiration in the Classical World, held 4 May 1996 at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-301) and indexes.
LanguageEnglish text with passages in Greek and Latin.
LCCN 2002283503
ISBN0199240043