Victim of The Muses
Victim of The Muses
副标题: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History
ISBN: 9780674019584
出版社: Center for Hellenic Studies
出版年: 2006-6-30
页数: 432
定价: USD 29.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
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.