Arjuna-Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic

ISBN-13: 9780367260477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 350 str.

Nicholas Allen

Opis

Bringing together the study of the Greek Classics and Indology, Arjuna–Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahābhārata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod.

Spis treści

List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. List of abbreviations. Signs. Introduction 1. A starting point 2. Five relationships 3. Homer’s simile 4. Hero and horse 5. Yoga 6. Crocodiles and nymphs 7. Monkey and dog 8. Durgā and Athena 9. Draupadī and Penelope 10. Bhīṣma and Sarpedon 11. Hesiod’s Succession Myth 12. Five elements 13. Rings and rotations 14. Achilles’ shield 15. Dumézil and Dumont 16. Yudhiṣṭhira and Agamemnon 17. Kauravas and suitors 18. Hanging over abyss 19. Gods descend to battlefield 20. Heroes and supercategories 21. Cyavana and Prometheus 22. Telemachy 23. Droṇa and Chryses 24. Aśvatthāman and the Wooden Horse. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

N. J. Allen is a social anthropologist and a retired Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford, UK. His research interests are Himalayan studies, world-historical approach to kinship systems, sociology of Durkheim and more especially Mauss, and Indo-European cultural comparativism.