Victim of the Muses - Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-674-01958-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Reihe: Hellenic Studies Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Compton, Todd Merlin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Compton, Todd Merlin
Todd Merlin Compton is an independent scholar.