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Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History
Harvard University Press, 2006 Paper: 978-0-674-01958-4 Library of Congress Classification PA3005.C66 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93352
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Hero | Poet | Poets, Latin | Scapegoat | Victim See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Harvard University Press, 2006
Paper: 978-0-674-01958-4
Paper: 978-0-674-01958-4
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.
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