Victim of the Muses
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, 2006
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This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. It 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 and are necessary, yet dangerous, to society. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 370 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 670. . 2006. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Victim of the Muses
- Author
- Todd Merlin Compton
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067401958X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674019584
This book 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.
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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