Indo-European Poetry and Myth

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Indo-European Poetry and Myth M. L. WEST 1 2007 ...

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Preface S my programmatic article ‘The Rise of the Greek Epic’ (JHS 108 (1988), 151–72) much of my work has been related to ...

The East Face of Helicon was written during my tenure of a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College. Most of the present ...

Contents Abbreviations x Note on Translations Quoted xiii Introduction 1 The Indo-Europeans in space and time. Chronological par ...

Sky and Earth 166 The divine Sky. Father Sky. The all-seeing, all-knowing god. –– The divine Earth. Mother Earth. Attributes of ...

Cosmos and Canon 340 Cosmology. Heaven and earth. Stony skies. Body imagery. World pillar, world tree. The cosmic serpent. The ...

Abbreviations AJP American Journal of Philology Anat. St. Anatolian Studies ANET J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Tex ...

HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology IEW Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Bern– Munich 1959–69 ...

RE Pauly–Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissen- schaft (Stuttgart 1894–1980) Rh. Mus. Rheinisches Museum Rm ...

Note on Translations Quoted Most translations offered for quoted passages (Vedic, Avestan, Greek, Old Norse, etc.) are my own. F ...

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Introduction ‘Indo-European’ is primarily a term of historical linguistics. It refers to the great family of languages that now ...

Semitic, Caucasian, and Uralian, and gather all of these, together with Indo- European, into a super-family dubbed ‘Nostratic’. ...

institutions, their mythology.^6 From 1853 onwards Kuhn, Theodor Benfey, and others began to identify parallel poetic phrases in ...

The year 1924 saw the first of a long series of publications by Georges Dumézil that were to give comparative mythology a fresh ...

volumes of proceedings, Festschriften and Gedenkschriften for distinguished Indo-Europeanists, and other substantial books. Sinc ...