Victim of the muses : poet as scapegoat, warrior, and hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European myth and history /

This book, which has relevance both for literary history and comparative religion, probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. Aesop, fabulist and riddle warrior, is assimilated to the pharmakos - the wretched human scapegoat who is expelled from the city or ki...

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