Myth In Indo European Antiquity

Author : Gerald James Larson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520340329
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth in Indo-European Antiquity written by Gerald James Larson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Gerald James Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth in Indo-European Antiquity written by Gerald James Larson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139841450
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity written by Roger D. Woodard and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures.

Author : Jaan Puhvel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans written by Jaan Puhvel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Result Of The Ongoing Activity Centered On Discovering And Understanding The Mythic, Religions, Social And Legal Underpinnings Of The Ancient Indo-European-Speaking Continuum In Terms Of Their Oldest Or Most Archaic Manifestations. Without Dustcover, Spine Slightly Damaged At Bottom, Ex-Libris, Usual Library Stamps And Markings, Text Absolutely Clean, Condition Good.

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022401
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. This mythic portrayal of the returned warrior is consistent with modern studies of similar behavior among soldiers returning from war. Roger Woodard's research identifies a common origin of these myths in the ancestral proto-Indo-European culture, in which rites were enacted to enable warriors to reintegrate themselves as functional members of society. He also compares the Italic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic mythic traditions surrounding the warrior, paying particular attention to Roman myth and ritual, notably to the etiologies and rites of the July festivals of the Poplifugia and Nonae Caprotinae, and to the October rites of the Sororium Tigillum.

Author : Jarich Oosten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317555848
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War of the Gods (RLE Myth) written by Jarich Oosten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This structural analysis of myth, first published in 1985, focuses on social and political problems of Indo-European mythology. Dr Jarich Oosten tells how the ancient Indo-European gods competed for supreme power and the exclusive possession of the sacred potion of wisdom and immortality. In examining the social code of the wars of the gods, he reveals that there are remarkably consistent patterns in time and space: paternal relatives, equals at first, prove unable to share power, magic goods, etc; while some gods retain their divine status as an exclusive prerogative, their brothers or paternal cousins are transformed into demons; relatives by marriage, however, who are unequal at first, succeed in sharing power and magic goods, and thus become equal partners in the pantheon. Dr Oosten describes how the ancient mythological cycles were broken down and transformed into heroic sagas and epics, and shows how many traditionally related themes – the severed head, the magic cauldron – were preserved. Gradually the political problems of kingship came to overshadow the social problems of kinship, as in the development of the myths of King Arthur. Dr Oosten argues that the social code remains basically the same, and his analysis of this code gives a fascinating perspective on the development of Indo-European mythology from the oldest written sources to the comparatively recent faitytales.

Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421414201
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Greek Myth written by Lowell Edmunds and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths.” —Phoenix Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of “myth” in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its context? What did myths mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today? Here, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each contributor lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Edmunds’s new general and chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation of Greek myth. Contributors are Jordi Pàmias, on the reception of Greek myth through history; H. S. Versnel, on the intersections of myth and ritual; Carolina López-Ruiz, on the near Eastern contexts; Joseph Falaky Nagy, on Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William Hansen, on myth and folklore; Claude Calame, on the application of semiotic theory of narrative; Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, on reading visual sources such as vase paintings; and Robert A. Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations. “A valuable collection of eight essays . . . Edmunds’s book provides a convenient opportunity to grapple with the current methodologies used in the analysis of literature and myth.” —New England Classical Newsletter and Journal

Author : Jaan Puhvel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801834134
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Mythology written by Jaan Puhvel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In myth, author Puhvel argues, a human group expresses the thought patterns by which it formulates self-cognition and self-realization, attains self-knowledge and self-confidence, explains its own sources and sometimes tries to chart its destinies. Here, Puhvel unravels the prehistoric origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared prehistorical religious, mythological, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent themes give life to the book as both a general introduction and a detailed reference.--From publisher description.

Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher : J.H.Röll Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3897542609
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformations of Helen written by Peter Jackson and published by J.H.Röll Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. R. Halliday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107679087
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indo-European Folk-Tales and Greek Legend written by W. R. Halliday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the text of the Gray Lectures delivered in 1932 on the influence of Indo-European legend on Greek myth.