Cultivating the Muse: Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical Literature

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Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου, Don Fowler
Oxford University Press, 2002 - 312 strán (strany)
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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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
References
279
Index Locorum
303
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