Here the poet is almost assimilated to the dying god of Frazer and the ancient Near East. ” After his death the whole world mourns (which seemingly puts Apollo in an unsympathetic light) even in Egypt there was a Linus lament. Τhe son of a Muse, Urania, he “ won a reputation for music greater than that of any contemporary or predecessor, and … Apollo killed him for equalling him in singing. The Linus who was the forefather of the Linus killed by Heracles (according to Pausanias), fits into this category of poets. Aggression and the Defensive Topos Archilochus, Callimachus, Horace Transformations of Myth: The Poet, Society, and the SacredĪppendix B. Seneca, Petronius, and Lucan: Neronian Victims Naevius: Dabunt malum Metelli Naevio poetae “Wounded by Tooth that Drew Blood”: The Beginnings of Satire in Rome Kissing the Leper: The Excluded Poet in Irish Myth Shadows of Hesiod: Divine Protection and Lonely Death Archilochus: Sacred Obscenity and Judgment Aesop: Satirist as Pharmakos in Archaic Greece
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