Homer and the Indo-Europeans: Comparing Mythologies
Julian Baldick
This highly original study in comparative mythology interprets the Greek myths in the light of the mythologies of other Indo-European cultures: Indian, Celtic, Scandinavian, Roman, Greek, Iranian and Ossetian. Julian Baldick uses a modified version of the schema proposed by the French theorist Dumezil - little known and often misunderstood in the Anglo-Saxon world - to consider the profound connections between such works as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the great Indian epics - the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Iranian Book of Kings and the Scandinavian Ynglingasaga. The book includes a long critical exposition of the discipline of comparative mythology from its eighteenth-century origins to the revival of the discipline by Dumezil and his followers from 1938 to the present. Also reassessing the profound critique of Dumezil which linked him with far-right ideology, Baldick's book is an important new contribution to work on comparative mythology
კატეგორია:
წელი:
1994
გამომცემლობა:
I.B. Tauris
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
187
ISBN 10:
1850438315
ISBN 13:
9781850438311
ფაილი:
PDF, 3.66 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1994