Ebook: Homer and the Indo-Europeans: Comparing Mythologies
Author: Julian Baldick
- Year: 1994
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Language: English
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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
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