Victim of the Muses

Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History

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ISBN 9780674019584

Publication Date: 06/30/2006

432 pages

5-1/2 x 9 inches

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Preface
Abbreviations
I. Greece
- 1. The Pharmakos in Archaic Greece
- 2. Aesop: Satirist as Pharmakos in Ancient Greece
- 3. Archilochus: Sacred Obscenity and Judgment
- 4. Hipponax: Creating the Pharmakos
- 5. Homer: The Trial of the Rhapsode
- 6. Hesiod: Consecrate Murder
- 7. Shadows of Hesiod: Divine Protection and Lonely Death
- 8. Sappho: The Barbed Rose
- 9. Alcaeus: Poetry, Politics, Exile
- 10. Theognis: Faceless Exile
- 11. Tyrtaeus: The lame General
- 12. Aeschylus: Little Ugly One
- 13. Euripides: Sparagmos of an Iconoclast
- 14. Aristophanes: Satirist versus Politician
- 15. Socrates: The New Aesop
- 16. Victim of the Muses: Mythical Poets
II. Indo-European Context
- 17. Kissing the Leper: The Excluded Poet in Irish Myth
- 18. The Stakes of the Poet: Starkaor/Suibhne
- 19. The Sacrificed Poet: Germanic Myths
III. Rome
- 20. “Wounded by Tooth that Drew Blood”: The Beginnings of Satire in Rome
- 21. Naevius: Dabunt malum Metelli Naevio Poetae
- 22. Cicero Maledicus, Cicero Exul
- 23. Ovid: Practicing the Stadium Fatale
- 24. Phaedrus: Another Fabulist
- 25. Seneca, Petronius, and Lucan: Neronian Victims
- 26. Juvenal: The Burning Poet
IV. Conclusions
- 27. Transformations of Myth: The Poet, Society, and the Sacred
Epilogue
Appendices
- A. Poetry, Aggression, Ritual
- B. Aggression and the Defensive Topos: Archilochus, Callimachus, Horace
- C. Themes
Bibliography
Index

Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History