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

ISBN-13: 9780199240043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 328 str.

Efrossini Spentzou

Opis

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.

Recenzje

... elegant, coherent, with interesting interactions ... These essays tell us not only a lot about muses, but a good deal about poetic creativity and identity, tradition and individuality. They cast unexpected light on familiar poems ... This is an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable volume.

O autorze

Efrossini Spentzou is Lecturer in Latin at Royal Holloway Don Fowler was Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford