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Victim of the muses : poet as scapegoat, warrior, and hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European myth and history
- Title
- Victim of the muses : poet as scapegoat, warrior, and hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European myth and history / Todd M. Compton.
- Author
- Compton, Todd, 1952-
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xv, 432 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Hellenic studies ; 11
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-414) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-3131
- ISBN
- 067401958X
- 9780674019584
- LCCN
- 2006002331
- OCLC
- 62307761
- Author
- Compton, Todd, 1952-
- Title
- Victim of the muses : poet as scapegoat, warrior, and hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European myth and history / Todd M. Compton.
- Imprint
- Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Series
- Hellenic studies ; 11
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-414) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-3131