Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior, and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and HistoryCenter for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2006 - 432 pages 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 killed in response to a crisis - after satirizing the Delphians. Other prominent legendary and historical Greek and Roman poets, such as Archilochus, Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Tyrtaeus, Euripides, Socrates, Naevius, Cicero, Ovid, and Juvenal, are also considered in this context. In much the same way, Dumezil's Indo-European heroes, Starkathr and Suibhne, are both warrior-poets persecuted by patron deities. This book views the scapegoat as a group's dominant warrior, sent out to confront predators or besieging forces. Both poets and warriors specialize in madness and aggression, are necessary to society, yet dangerous to society. |
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... Birds 471 . 7 Perry 1965 : xlvi ; Adrados 1979 : 93 . Cf. Birch 1955. Another version , the work of thirteenth- century AD Maximus Planudes , is “ an adaptation of Vita W , but with no fundamental changes . " Holzberg 2002 : 73 . The ...
... Birds 471 . 7 Perry 1965 : xlvi ; Adrados 1979 : 93 . Cf. Birch 1955. Another version , the work of thirteenth- century AD Maximus Planudes , is “ an adaptation of Vita W , but with no fundamental changes . " Holzberg 2002 : 73 . The ...
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... bird ( 98 [ 2.38.17 ] , 102 [ 2.41.18-19 ] , compare the fable , 99 [ 2.38.29–40 ] ) ; he uses sexual slurs ( Bhīṣma's ... birds find that the goose has been eating the eggs , they band together to kill him . This is a strangely Aesopic ...
... bird ( 98 [ 2.38.17 ] , 102 [ 2.41.18-19 ] , compare the fable , 99 [ 2.38.29–40 ] ) ; he uses sexual slurs ( Bhīṣma's ... birds find that the goose has been eating the eggs , they band together to kill him . This is a strangely Aesopic ...
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... birds , 67 , 236-237 , 242 , 304 Blame , 280n22 blame . See praise and blame ; satire Bleddyn Fardd , 212 blindness , 38n75 , 69-70 , 90 , 170 , 202 , 207 Borges , Jorge Luis , 159 Bowra , C. M. , 89 , 120 Bragi , 264 brahmans , 197n29 ...
... birds , 67 , 236-237 , 242 , 304 Blame , 280n22 blame . See praise and blame ; satire Bleddyn Fardd , 212 blindness , 38n75 , 69-70 , 90 , 170 , 202 , 207 Borges , Jorge Luis , 159 Bowra , C. M. , 89 , 120 Bragi , 264 brahmans , 197n29 ...
Contents
Poetry Politics Exile | 106 |
Faceless Exile | 114 |
Little Ugly | 130 |
Copyright | |
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