Arjuna-Odysseus : shared heritage in Indian and Greek epic /

Arjuna-Odysseus : shared heritage in Indian and Greek epic /

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Author / Creator:	Allen, N. J., author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ©2020
Description:	viii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Arjuna -- (Hindu mythological character) Odysseus, -- King of Ithaca (Mythological character) Homer. -- Odyssey. Arjuna -- (Hindu mythological character) Odysseus, -- King of Ithaca (Mythological character) Mahābhārata. Mahābhārata. Odyssey (Homer)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12393381

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ISBN:	9780367260477 0367260476 9780367348304 0367348306 9780429294129 9781000652000 9781000651720 9781000651867
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Bringing together the study of the Greek Classics and Indology, Arjuna-Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mah¿bh¿rata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod. Building on the ethnographic theories of Durkheim, Mauss and Dumont, the volume explores the convergences and rapprochements between the Mah¿bh¿rata and the Greek texts. In exploring the networks of similarities between the two epic traditions, it also reformulates the theory of Georeges Dumézil regarding Indo-European cultural comparativism. It includes a detailed comparison between journeys undertaken by the two epic heroes-Odysseus and Arjuna, and more generally, it ranges across the philosophical ideas of these cultures, and the epic traditions, metaphors, and archetypes that define the cultural ideology of ancient Greece and India. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Indo-European comparativism, social and cultural anthropology, classical literature, Indology, cultural and post-colonial studies, philosophy and religion, as well as to those who love the Indian and Greek epics"--
Other form:	Online version: Allen, N. J., Arjuna-odysseus First. New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780429294129

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