Todd M. Compton, Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History

Todd M. Compton, Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History

Part I. Greece. 1. The Pharmakos in Archaic Greece

Part I. Greece. 2. Aesop: Satirist as Pharmakos in Archaic Greece

Part I. Greece. 3. Archilochus: Sacred Obscenity and Judgment

Part I. Greece. 4. Hipponax: Creating the Pharmakos

Part I. Greece. 5. Homer: The Trial of the Rhapsode

Part I. Greece. 6. Hesiod: Consecrate Murder

Part I. Greece. 7. Shadows of Hesiod: Divine Protection and Lonely Death

Part I. Greece. 8. Sappho: The Barbed Rose

Part I. Greece. 9. Alcaeus: Poetry, Politics, Exile

Part I. Greece. 10. Theognis: Faceless Exile

Part I. Greece. 11. Tyrtaeus: The Lame General

Part I. Greece. 12. Aeschylus: Little Ugly One

Part I. Greece. 13. Euripides: Sparagmos of an Iconoclast

Part I. Greece. 14. Aristophanes: Satirist versus Politician

Part I. Greece. 15. Socrates: The New Aesop

Part I. Greece. 16. Victim of the Muses: Mythical Poets

Part II. Indo-European Context. 17. Kissing the Leper: The Excluded Poet in Irish Myth

Part II. Indo-European Context. 18. The Stakes of the Poet: Starkaðr/Suibhne

Part II. Indo-European Context. 19. The Sacrificed Poet: Germanic Myths

Part III. Rome. 20. “Wounded by Tooth that Drew Blood”: The Beginnings of Satire in Rome

Part III. Rome. 21. Naevius: Dabunt malum Metelli Naevio poetae

Part III. Rome. 22. Cicero Maledicus, Cicero Exul

Part III. Rome. 23. Ovid: Practicing the Studium Fatale

Part III. Rome. 24. Phaedrus: Another Fabulist

Part III. Rome. 25. Seneca, Petronius, and Lucan: Neronian Victims

Part III. Rome. 26. Juvenal: The Burning Poet

Part IV. Conclusions. 27. Transformations of Myth: The Poet, Society, and the Sacred

Part IV. Conclusions. Epilogue

Appendix A: Poetry, Aggression, Ritual

Appendix B. Aggression and the Defensive Topos; Archilochus, Callimachus, Horace

Appendix C: Themes

To cite this work:

Compton, Todd M. 2006. Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History. Hellenic Studies Series 11. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_Compton.Victim_of_the_Muses.2006.

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