18. On the Stories of a Poet’s Life
Chapter 18. On the Stories of a Poet’s Life 18§1. In the preceding chapters, I have argued that the generic warrior/poet, as therápōn of Ares/Muses, is implicitly worthy of becoming a cult hero after death. This in fact is the explicit message, I now submit, of the famous poetic declaration made by the one attested figure who boasts of being both warrior and poet: εἰμὶ δ᾽ ἐγὼ… Read more