Research Catalog

Title

Arjuna-Odysseus : shared heritage in Indian and Greek epic / N. J. Allen.

Author

Allen, N. J.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

viii, 350 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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"--

Subject

• Arjuna (Hindu mythological character)
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
• Homer
• Mahābhārata
• Odyssey (Homer)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A starting point -- Five relationships -- Homer's simile -- Hero and horse -- Yoga -- Crocodiles and nymphs -- Monkey and dog -- Durg¿ and Athena -- Draupadī and Penelope -- Bhīṣma and Sarpedon -- Hesiod's Succession Myth -- Five elements -- Rings and rotations -- Achilles' shield -- Dumézil and Dumont -- Yudhiṣṭhira and Agamemnon -- Kauravas and suitors -- Hanging over abyss -- Gods descend to battlefield -- Heroes and supercategories -- Cyavana and Prometheus -- Telemachy -- Droṇa and Calchas -- Aśvatth¿man and the Wooden Horse.

Call Number

JFE 20-4462

ISBN

• 9780367260477
• 0367260476
• 9780367348304
• 0367348306
• 9780429294129 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000652000 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000651720 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000651867 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019028153
• 40029719373

OCLC

1101044794

Author

Allen, N. J., author.

Title

Arjuna-Odysseus : shared heritage in Indian and Greek epic / N. J. Allen.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Allen, N. J., Arjuna-odysseus First. New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780429294129 (DLC) 2019028154

Other Standard Identifier

40029719373

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4462