Victim of the Muses : Poet As Scapegoat, Warrior And Hero in Greco-roman And Indo-european Myth And History
Compton, Todd
ISBN 10: 067401958X ISBN 13: 9780674019584
Edité par Center for Hellenic Studies, 2006
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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.À propos de l'auteur: Todd Merlin Compton is an independent scholar.
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Titre : Victim of the Muses : Poet As Scapegoat, ...
Éditeur : Center for Hellenic Studies
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : As New