Cultivating the Muse Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical Literature

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ISBN: 9780199240043 | 0199240043
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/23/2002

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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.

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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Secularizing the Muse
Plato's Muses: The Goddesses that Endure
The Envied Muse: Plato versus Homer
Reinscribing the Muse: Greek Drama and the Discourse of Inspired Creativity
Stealing Apollo's Lyre
Authority and Ontology of the Muses in Epic Reception
Masculinity under Threat: the Poetics and Politics of Inspiration in Latin Poetry
The Untouched Self: Sapphic and Catullan Muses in Horace, Odes 1. 22
The Muse Unruly and Dead: Acanthis in Propertius 4 . 5
An A--musing Tale: Gender, Genre, and Ovid
Muse and Power in the Poetry of Statius
Corny Copa, the Motel Muse
References
Index
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Cultivating the Muse Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical Literature

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