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Contents Preface......................................................................................................................................................tk Part I: Greece 1-The Pharmakos in Archaic Greece 1 2-Aesop: Satirist as Pharmakos in Archaic Greece 16 3-Archilochus: Sacred Obscenity and Judgment 36 4-Hipponax: Creating the Pharmakos 53 5-Homer: The Trial of the Rhapsode 63 6-Hesiod: Consecrate Murder 69 7-Shadows of Hesiod: Divine Protection and Lonely Death 80 8-Sappho: The Barbed Rose 88 9-Alcaeus: Poetry, Politics, Exile 98 10-Theognis: Faceless Exile 106 11-Tyrtaeus: The Lame General 112 12-Aeschylus: Little Ugly One 123 13-Euripides: Sparagmos of an Iconoclast 128 14-Aristophanes: Satirist versus Politician 136 15-Socrates: The New Aesop 147 16-Victim of the Muses: Mythical Poets 159 Part II: Indo-European Context 17-Kissing the Leper: The Excluded Poet in Irish Myth 182 18-The Stakes of the Poet: Starka_r/Suibhne 207 19-The Sacrificed Poet: Germanic Myths 241 Part III: Rome 20-"Wounded by Tooth that Drew Blood": The Beginnings of Satire in Rome 256 21-Naevius: Dabunt malum Metelli Naevio poetae 262 22-Cicero Maledicus, Cicero Exul 268 23-Ovid: Practicing the Studium Fatale 280 24-Phaedrus: Another Fabulist 287 25-Seneca, Petronius, and Lucan: Neronian Victims 291 26-Juvenal: The Burning Poet 298 Part IV: Conclusions 27-Transformations of Myth: The Poet, Society, and the Sacred 303 Epilogue 314 Appendices: A-Poetry, Aggression, Ritual 316 B-Aggression and the Defensive Topos: Archilochus, Callimachus, Horace 322 C-Themes 333 Abbreviations and Bibliography......................................................................................................337 Index...................................................................................................................................................tk
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Authors, Classical -- Biography.
Poets, Greek -- Biography.
Poets, Latin -- Biography.
Scapegoat.