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Compton, Todd Merlin

VICTIM OF THE MUSES Poet As Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History Very Good

Center for Hellenic Studies, 2006

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Year of publication
2006
ISBN
067401958X
Author
Compton, Todd Merlin
Publishers
Center for Hellenic Studies
Keyword
Homeric Epic Myth And Mythology Classical Greek & Roman
Cover description
Very Good
Binding description
Softcover ISBN 067401958X

Description

Light shelfwear. Light foxing to top of textblock. ; 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. ; Hellenic Studies 11; 432 pages
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