Cultivating the Muse: Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical LiteratureΕυφροσύνη Σπέντζου, Don Fowler Oxford University Press, 2002 - 312 páginas A variety of critical approaches from an international cast of contributors offer an original appreciation of creativity in classical literature. Whereas previous scholarship has portrayed the Muses as religious and benign creatures, the secularized muse figures explored here in a diverse corpus of Greek and Latin poetry are involved in a series of vibrant battles for inspiration. |
Contenido
The Goddesses that Endure | 29 |
Plato versus Homer | 47 |
Greek Drama and the Discourse | 69 |
Muses and Poetic λa in Apollonius | 93 |
Authority and Ontology of the Muses in Epic Reception | 117 |
Masculinity under Threat? The Poetics and Politics | 141 |
Sapphic and Catullan Muses in Horace | 161 |
Acanthis in Propertius 4 5 | 187 |
Gender Genre and Ovids Battles | 207 |
Muse and Power in the Poetry of Statius | 229 |
the Motel Muse | 253 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acanthis Aeetes Aeneid Aeschylus Alcaeus ancient Ancona Apollo Apollonius archaic Muses Argonautica audience Augustan authority bard Book Callimachus Catullus Cavarero cave cicadas classical contrast Copa Copa's creative Cynthia dance desire Dionysus discourse discussion divine Domitian elegiac elegy Ennius epic erotic female figure Fowler function gender genre goddess gods Greek Helicon heroes Hesiod Homer Horace Horace's human images inspiration integer invocation invoked Jason knowledge Lada-Richards Lalage Latin literary lyric male masculine Medea Metamorphoses metapoetical mihi mortal Muse's Muses myth narration narrative nunc Odes Odysseus Ovid Ovid's passage philosopher Plato plot Poem 51 poet poet's poetic poetry political present proem Propertius relationship rhapsode role Roman Sappho sexual Sharrock sing Sirens Socrates song speak speaker speech Spentzou Statius story suggests sunt symbolic tell Thamyris Theog Theogony tion tradition truth verse Virgil voice volume woman words writing Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε