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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ;
2006.
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| Series: | Hellenic studies ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of contents |
Table of 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.