The muses and their afterlife in post-classical Europe / edited by Kathleen W. Christian, Clare E. L. Guest and Claudia Wedepohl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christian, Kathleen (Kathleen Wren), 1971- editor.

Guest, Clare Lapraik, editor.

Wedepohl, Claudia, editor.

Series:

Warburg Institute colloquia ; 1352-9986 26.

Warburg Institute colloquia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muses (Greek deities)--Congresses.

Muses (Greek deities).

Mythology, Classical, in art--Congresses.

Mythology, Classical, in art.

Mythology, Classical, in literature--Congresses.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Mythology, Classical, in music--Congresses.

Mythology, Classical, in music.

Mythology, Classical--Influence--Congresses.

Mythology, Classical.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 300 pages : illustrations (some colored) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Warburg Institute ; Turin : Nino Aragno Editore, 2014.

Contents:

The muses in the Platonic academy / John Dillon

The muses in antiquity / Penelope Murray

The temporality of the muses : a reading of the sister goddesses in late antique Latin literature / Karin Schlapbach

The muses and medieval Latin poets / Peter Dronke

The muses' grief : Jacopo de' Barbari on painting, poetry and cultural transfer in the north / Ulrich Pfisterer

The multiplicity of the muses : the reception of antique images of the muses in Italy, 1400-1600 / Kathleen W.Christian

The muses and musical inspiration in early modern France : the case of Pontus de Tyard and Mersenne / Brigitte Van Wymeersch

Poetic frenzy and the afterlife of the muses in Ficino's In Platonis Ionem and Bruno's De gli heroici furori / Jan Söffner

The growth of the pygmy muses : the muses in Italian sixteenth-century poetics / Clare E.L. Guest

Mnemosyne, the muses and Apollo : mythology as epistemology in Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas / Claudia Wedepohl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781908590497

1908590491

OCLC:

890005952