Cultivating the muse : struggles for power and inspiration in classical literature

Cultivating the muse : struggles for power and inspiration in classical literature / edited by Efrossini Spentzou and Don Fowler.

Other author/creator	Spentzou, Efrossini.
Other author/creator	Fowler, Don, 1953-1999.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description	viii, 312 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	Muses (Greek deities)--Congresses. Inspiration in literature--Congresses. Greek literature--History and criticism --Congresses. Latin literature--History and criticism --Congresses.

Contents	Introduction: secularizing the muse / Efrossini Spentzou -- Plato's muses: the goddesses that endure / Penelope Murray -- The envied muse: Plato versus Homer / Adriana Cavarero -- Reinscribing the muse: Greek drama and the discourse of inspired creativity / Ismene Lada-Richards -- Stealing Apollo's lyre: muses and poetic [Greek] in Apollonius' Argonautica 3 / Efrossini Spentzou -- Authority and ontology of the muses in epic reception / Andrew Laird -- Masculinity under threat? The poetics and and politics of inspiration in Latin poetry / Don Fowler -- The untouched self: Sapphic and Catullan muses in Horace, Odes 1.22 / Ronnie Ancona -- The muse unruly and dead: Acanthis in Propertius 4.5 / Micaela Janan -- An a-musing tale: gender, genre, and Ovid's battles with inspiration in the Metamorphoses / Alison Sharrock -- Muse and power in the poetry of Statius / Gianpiero Rosati -- Corny copa: the motel muse / John Henderson.
General note	Includes papers from the conference Cultivating the Muse : Power, Desire and Inspiration in the Classical World, held 4 May 1996 at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-301) and indexes.
Language	English text with passages in Greek and Latin.
LCCN	2002283503
ISBN	0199240043

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	BL820.M8 C85 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold