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

Informationen zum Autor Todd Merlin Compton is an independent scholar. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Merlin Compton
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780674019584
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01958-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Hellenic Studies Series; Hellenic Studies; Hellenic Studies Series; Hellenic Studies (HUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies