The muses and their afterlife in post-classical Europe

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.