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Journal articles on the topic "Epic, Indo-European"

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Dudziak, Arkadiusz, and Marina Payunena. "Indo-European anthropological and cultural sources of the Ossetian heroic epic as an example of nomadism of ideas and values (problem statement)." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 10, no. 1 (2019): 289–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.4525.

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The paper makes an attempt to analyse the Indo-European cultural categories in the dimension of anthropological and cultural sources which have constituted the national epic of Ossetians, the descendants of the legendary Sarmatian Alans. As a result of studying the present state of knowledge about nomadism, the authors propose a way of understanding that concept as an intercultural penetration of ideas and values through the cultural texts (myths, literary works) in the history of the Indo-European family of Eurasian nations. The authors present the nomadism of Indo-European cultural elements
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ALLEN, NICK. "HEROES AND PENTADS: OR HOW INDO-EUROPEAN IS GREEK EPIC?" Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 57, no. 1 (2014): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2014.00062.x.

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Abstract Students of the narrative content of Greek epic usually ignore the hypothesis that it shares a common origin with the Sanskrit epic, and even Georges Dumézil, the best known Indo-European cultural comparativist of the last century, emphasized the contrast between the two traditions. However, since Dumézil's death, it has been argued that his ‘trifunctional’ theory of Indo-European ideology needs to be subsumed within a pentadic framework. This framework suggests that the sets of protagonists in the Massacre of the Suitors and in the Trojan War are comparable with those at the heart of
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Salbiev, T. K. "Epic hero nart Soslan / Sosruko’s Indo-European origin: ritual aspect." Indo-European linguistics and classical philology 28 (2024): 1355–65. https://doi.org/10.30842/ielcp2306901528127.

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Porck, Thijs. "UnderstandingBeowulfas an Indo-European Epic: A Study in Comparative Mythology." English Studies 92, no. 6 (2011): 693–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2011.604908.

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Vassilkov, Y. V. "The Armenian Epic “Daredevils of Sassoun” and the Mahābhārata: Similarity of the Ethnographic Substratum." Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 47, no. 2 (2019): 140–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2019.47.2.140-147.

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The author summarizes the results of his search for parallels between the Armenian epic “Sasna cṙer” (“Daredevils of Sassoun”) and the Mahābhārata. The comparative study has revealed considerable similarity in the “ethnographic substratum” of both epics, particularly that relating to the archaic social organization mirrored by the epic. The earliest layer of both the Armenian and the Indian epics retains the memory of a rural, largely pastoral society, in which an important role was played by the fraternities of young warriors. In the Armenian epic, this is indicated by recurrent motifs such a
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Duev, Ratko. "The Family of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry and Myths." Classica Cracoviensia 22 (October 29, 2020): 121–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cc.20.2019.22.05.

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The Family of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry and Myths
 In early epic poetry it is evident that certain differences exist in both traditions, mainly due to the fact that Homer’s epic poems were written on the western coast of Asia Minor and the surrounding islands, while Hesiod’s poems were composed on mainland Greece. From the analysis, it becomes clear that the development of the cult of an Indo-European Sky Father differs significantly from the assumed Proto-Indo-European tradition. His family is completely different from that in the Indo-European tradition. His wife is the goddess Hera, w
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Jamison, Stephanie W. "Draupadí on the Walls of Troy: "Iliad" 3 from an Indic Perspective." Classical Antiquity 13, no. 1 (1994): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25011002.

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Helen's "viewing" of the Greek heroes from the walls of Troy in "Iliad" 3 (the Teikhoskopia) and its relation to the duel between Menelaos and Paris later in the same book are much-discussed episodes in Homeric criticism. Comparison with a cognate epic tradition, that of ancient India, produces insight on these problematic scenes. The illegal abduction and correct reabduction of Draupadī, the wife of the heroes of the Mahābhārata, show striking parallels to the sequence of the events in "Iliad" 3, and the narrative pattern in both epics appears to reflect inherited Indo-European legal institut
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Finkelberg, Margalit. "Is KΛΕΟΣ ΑΦθΙΤΟΝ a Homeric Formula?" Classical Quarterly 36, № 1 (1986): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800010491.

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Since being brought to light in 1853 by Adalbert Kuhn, the fact that the Homeric expression κλέος ἄφθιτον has an exact parallel in the Veda has played an extremely important role in formulating the hypothesis that Greek epic poetry is of Indo-European origin. Yet only with Milman Parry's analysis of the formulaic character of Homeric composition did it become possible to test the antiquity of κλέος ἄφθιτον on the internal grounds of Homeric diction.It is generally agreed that the conservative character of oral composition entails a high degree of correlation between the antiquity of a Homeric
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Jaszczyński, Maciej. "Indo-European Roots of the Helen of Troy." Studia Ceranea 8 (December 30, 2018): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2084-140x.08.01.

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As a part of the series on female deities and demons in the Indo-European culture, the article begins by establishing Helen’s divine character in the Greek tradition and religion. The first area where the Indo-European character of Helen is displayed concerns the etymology of her name, which has been the subject of discussion and controversy throughout several decades. The most prominent theories are presented, including the concept of Pokorny and West to explain her name as ‘Lady of Light’ from the Proto-Indo-European root *swel- or *swelh1-, the idea of Skutsch to connect Helen with Vedic Sa
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Grbić, Igor. "The Mahabharata and the epic Kosovo poems." Kultura, no. 181 (2023): 33–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/kultura2381033g.

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Comparisons between the epic Mahabharata, the world's largest literary work, and the quantitatively modest corpus of epic poems referring to the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, have drawn scholarly attention mainly focused on the larger and the better-known example of epic poetry. The lesser attention paid to the epic Kosovo poems prefers a genetic approach, i.e. identifying the common traits and tracing their variations back to their common Proto-Indo-European origin and, presumably, the common protomyth. The overlaps typically include the heroic characters, motifs and plot segments. The article hi
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epic, Indo-European"

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Horrell, Matthew Aaron. "Epic hyperbole in Homer." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5777.

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Few works have created such memorable characters as the Iliad and Odyssey. Readers come away from these works with the impression that the characters described in the stories are larger than life: Achilles is strong, Ajax is enormous, Patroclus is bloodthirsty, Nestor is ancient, Stentor is loud. Nobody leaves Homer’s epics thinking his heroes are not worthy of their lasting fame. This study argues that, although the heroes of the two Homeric epics are meant to be impressive, their characterization in the Iliad and Odyssey is the result of a process of rationalization whereby the hyperbole tra
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Platte, Ryan. "Horses and horsemanship in the oral poetry of Ancient Greece and the Indo-European world /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11480.

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Nikolaev, Alexander Sergeevich. "Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10489.

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The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic perspective. This thesis consists of two parts. The first part, “Etymology and Poetics”, is devoted to several cases where scantiness of attestation and lack of semantic information render traditional philological methods of textual interpretation insufficient. In such cases, the meaning of a word has to be arrived at through linguistic analysis and verified through appeal to
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Books on the topic "Epic, Indo-European"

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Anderson, Earl R. Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European epic: A study in comparative mythology. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Stannard, Brendan. The Cosmic contest: A systems study in Indo-European epic, myth, cult and cosmogony. CARIB, 1992.

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Petrosyan, Armen. The Indo-European and ancient near Eastern origins of the Armenian epic: Myth and history. Institute for the Study of Man, 2002.

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Petrosyan, Armen. The Indo-european and ancient Near Eastern sources of the Armenian epic: Myth and history. Institute for the Study of Man, 2002.

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Dumézil, Georges. Mythe et épopée. Gallimard, 1995.

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1923-, Garsoïan Nina G., ред. The epic histories attributed to Pʻawstos Buzand (Buzandaran patmutʻiwnkʻ). Distributed for the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University by Harvard University Press, 1989.

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Manukyan, A. L. Bnazd ev ěntanikʻ. Heghinakayin hratarakutʻyun, 2017.

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Baldick, Julian. Homer and the Indo-Europeans: Comparing mythologies. I.B. Tauris, 1994.

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Lakhnavī, G̲h̲ālib. The adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the auspicious planetary conjunction. Modern Library, 2007.

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Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European epic: A study in comparative mythology. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Epic, Indo-European"

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Morales-Harley, Roberto. "5. Sanskrit Authors Adapting Greco-Roman Texts." In The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre. Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0417.05.

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Lastly, Chapter 5 discuses two main conclusions. On one hand, general influences appear as plausible, particularly regarding the adaptation techniques (the ways in which each tradition turns their epic into theater). Therefore, “Greco-Roman motifs” (literary motifs from the Greco-Roman world that would have made it into India) must at least be considered – alongside “Folk motifs” and “Indo-European motifs” – when comparing these literatures. On the other hand, specific borrowings would have also been possible for the adapted elements (the themes coming to the theater from each epic), consideri
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Watkins, Calvert. "A late Indo-European traditional epithet." In How to Kill a Dragon. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195085952.003.0014.

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Abstract In one of the few fragments of pre-Christian Armenian oral epic poetry (the text is quoted in chap. 23.2) we find in a simile the phrase arcui sratew‘sharp-winged eagle’. In this group of noun and adjectival epithet, both in its form and in its semantics, we have a probable inheritance from the common poetic language of Indo-Iranian, Greek, and Armenian.
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KATZ, JOSHUA T. "The epic adventures of an unknown particle." In Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective. Cambridge Philological Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv27h1q70.9.

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"The Nart Epic: A Neglected Treasure of Indo-European Mythology." In The Ossetes. I.B. Tauris, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755618484.ch-3.

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Leeming, David. "Germanic Mythology." In From Olympus to Camelot. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195143614.003.0006.

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Abstract The term Germanic mythology refers to the gods and heroes of European peoples that include Germans, Scandinavians, and Anglo-Saxons. These are people whose languages—one of which would evolve into Old English and then, with other influences, into Middle and Modern English—derive from the same Indo-European branch. Terms commonly applied to the most northern of the Germanic peoples are Norse and, during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries, Viking. Germanic mythology has a certain unity of theme and narrative but reflects the conditions of several cultures “contaminated” in various
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Ballesteros, Bernardo. "Diffusion." In Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198924623.003.0006.

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Abstract The chapter concludes the first part of the book by asking what the historical relation is between Babylonian and Greek divine assemblies. It discusses potential receptions of Near Eastern divine assemblies in Greek epic, arguing that the indigenous context is sufficient to account for parallels in poetic technique (§1). To strengthen the possibility of polygenesis, the chapter turns to divine assemblies in distant traditions (§2), within both Indo-European (Old Norse, Sanskrit) and unrelated areas (Polynesian, Aztec). By returning to the Near East, and specifically to Anatolia and th
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Edmunds, Lowell. "Hypostases of Helen." In Stealing Helen. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691165127.003.0005.

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This chapter reexamines the evidence for two cults of Helen, as part of a discussion into the origins of Helen and her myth outside of her narrative. Some scholars have posited that Helen, before becoming humanized into a heroine in Homer's epic, had originated as a goddess, and is thus hypostatized as an essential or real being who exists before and outside of myth and poetry and somehow enters the extant sources. To make matters more obscure, there are two such goddesses—two hypostases. In one, Helen is the avatar of an Indo-European goddess, who is also reflected in certain goddesses in the
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Mikhailova, Tatyana. "Cú Chulainn as Culann’s dog: towards a reconstruction of an archaic mythological motive." In Semiotics in the Past and Present. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/7576-0488-6.11.

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The starting point of the investigation is the episode in which the Irish epic hero got his name Cú Chulainn, i.e. Culan-the-Smith's Hound. In early Ireland, the prefix ‘Cú' (Hound) was really used in names of kings and of heroes, as it is generally considered, to denote warrior status. We do not fully agree with this straightforward interpretation. In Celtic tradition a hound possesses, in the first place, certain protective functions as a defender of “wives and cattle”, the fact finding its analogues in the Old Indian tradition. At the same time we are going to draw attention to the fact tha
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Lyons, Deborah. "Book 3." In Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869870.003.0004.

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Abstract Book 3 begins with Hector reproaching Paris for his deficiencies as a warrior. Paris responds by proposing a duel with Menelaus for possession of Helen. The goddess Iris summons Helen to watch the duel from the walls of the city, where she answers Priam’s questions about the Greek warriors. Aphrodite rescues Paris from injury and summons a reluctant Helen to join him in his bedchamber, where she compares him unfavorably to her former husband. Meanwhile Menelaus searches fruitlessly for his opponent. This chapter discusses the following items under the category of themes: the contrast
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Stroumsa, Guy G. "Semitic Monotheism." In The Idea of Semitic Monotheism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898685.003.0006.

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Ernest Renan remains the most important figure in the French study of religion. His attitudes to both Judaism and Islam must be understood against the backdrop of his notion of the two main races of humankind, the Semitic and the Indo-European, an idea which he had already developed in his early work on the Semitic languages and which continued to inform his thought throughout his life. In Renan’s view, the Semites represent a lower combination of human nature. They had for him no mythology, no epics, no science, no philosophy, no fiction, no plastic arts, no civil life … In other words, the S
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Conference papers on the topic "Epic, Indo-European"

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Toporova, Tatyana. "OLD ICELANDIC GARÐR ‘FENCED SPACE’ AND COGNATE MYTHOLOGICAL TOPONYMS IN THE “ELDER EDDA”." In VII Readings in Memory of V. N. Yartseva. Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/978-5-6049527-5-7-1.

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The choice of OIcel. garðr ‘fenced space’ and its derivatives as objects of study is not accidental since this lexeme is used in the “Elder Edda” to nominate key concepts of the local-temporal continuum, namely the sphere of habitation of gods (cf. OIcel. ásgarðr) and people (cf. OIcel. mið garðr). For an adequate study of the epic word and the denotations encoded by it, a special description scheme has been developed, taking into account a variety of factors influencing the constitution of its meaning. Context as the immediate environment of the existence of a word acquires decisive importanc
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