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