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Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Paperback)
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Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Paperback)
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The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language
from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended,
most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six
thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional
mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of
common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed
the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was
influenced by Near Eastern traditions, mainly non-Indo-European.
His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements
of more ancient, Indo-European heritage in the Greek material.
Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in
Indo-European societies; meter, style, and diction; gods and other
supernatural beings, from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the
Sun-god and his beautiful daughter, the Thunder-god and other
elemental deities, and earthly orders such as Nymphs and Elves; the
forms of hymns, prayers, and incantations; conceptions about the
world, its origin, mankind, death, and fate; the ideology of fame
and of immortalization through poetry; the typology of the king and
the hero; the hero as warrior, and the conventions of battle
narrative.
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