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The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. Thi
Eros Muse
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An examination of the love affair between the poet and her muse. Personifying the muse as her ultimate, possessive lover, the poet explores what it means to be
Boccaccio's Naked Muse
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Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropolo
Cultivating the Muse
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Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece
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Authors: Claude Calame
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The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Fo