Readership: Scholars and students of classical literature.
Edited by Efrossini Spentzou, Lecturer in Latin, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Don Fowler, Late Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
"... 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." - JACT Review
Preface Abbreviations 1: Efrossini Spentzou: Introduction: Secularizing the Muse 2: Penelope Murray: Plato's Muses: The Goddesses that Endure 3: Adriana Cavarero: The Envied Muse: Plato versus Homer 4: Ismene Lada-Richards: Reinscribing the Muse: Greek Drama and the Discourse of Inspired Creativity 5: Efrossini Spentzou: Stealing Apollo's Lyre 6: Andrew Laird: Authority and Ontology of the Muses in Epic Reception 7: Don Fowler: Masculinity under Threat: the Poetics and Politics of Inspiration in Latin Poetry 8: Ronnie Ancona: The Untouched Self: Sapphic and Catullan Muses in Horace, Odes 1. 22 9: Micaela Janan: The Muse Unruly and Dead: Acanthis in Propertius 4 . 5 10: Alison Sharrock: An A--musing Tale: Gender, Genre, and Ovid 11: Gianpiero Rosati: Muse and Power in the Poetry of Statius 12: John Henderson: Corny Copa, the Motel Muse References Index
