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The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme
moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China,
Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its
starting point, it examines what such "moments" have in common, how
they are created, and what effect they have on subsequent literary
creation.
Vedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material
concerning the mythology and religious practices of India between
1500 and 500 B.C.E. a crucial period in the formation of
traditional Indian culture. Stephanie W. Jamison here addresses the
conditions that have limited our understanding of Vedic myth and
ritual, such as the profusion and obscurity of the texts and the
tendency on the part of scholars to approach mythology and ritual
independently. Tracing two key myths through a variety of texts,
Jamison provides insight into the relationship between early Indic
myth and ritual as well as offering a new methodology for their
study.
After a brief survey of Vedic literature and religion, Jamison
examines the recurrences of the myths "Indra fed the Yatis to the
hyenas" and "Svarbhanu pierced the sun with darkness." Focusing on
their verbal form and ritual setting, she essays a general
interpretation of the myths and their ritual purpose. Her book
sheds new light on some central figures in Vedic mythology and on
the evolution of Vedic mythological narrative, and it points to
parallels in other cultures as well. Indologists and other scholars
and students of South Asian culture, Indo-Eurepeanists,
folklorists, historians of religion, classicists, and comparatists
will welcome this rich and suggestive introduction to the Vedic
tradition."
Vedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material
concerning the mythology and religious practices of India between
1500 and 500 B.C.E. a crucial period in the formation of
traditional Indian culture. Stephanie W. Jamison here addresses the
conditions that have limited our understanding of Vedic myth and
ritual, such as the profusion and obscurity of the texts and the
tendency on the part of scholars to approach mythology and ritual
independently. Tracing two key myths through a variety of texts,
Jamison provides insight into the relationship between early Indic
myth and ritual as well as offering a new methodology for their
study.
After a brief survey of Vedic literature and religion, Jamison
examines the recurrences of the myths "Indra fed the Yatis to the
hyenas" and "Svarbhanu pierced the sun with darkness." Focusing on
their verbal form and ritual setting, she essays a general
interpretation of the myths and their ritual purpose. Her book
sheds new light on some central figures in Vedic mythology and on
the evolution of Vedic mythological narrative, and it points to
parallels in other cultures as well. Indologists and other scholars
and students of South Asian culture, Indo-Eurepeanists,
folklorists, historians of religion, classicists, and comparatists
will welcome this rich and suggestive introduction to the Vedic
tradition."
The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European
Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes
participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all
aspects of Indo-European studies. Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston:
Phonological Movement in Greek and Latin; Vaclav Blaek: On 'horse'
in Slavic; Chiara Bozzone: New Perspectives on Formularity; Andrew
Miles Byrd: Motivating Sievers' Law; Jose L. Garcia Ramon:
Reconstructing IE Lexicon and Phraseology: Inherited Patterns and
Lexical Renewal; Adam Hyllested: The Precursors of Celtic and
Germanic; Vyacheslav V. Ivanov: Distributive Numerals in Tocharian
B and Balto-Slavic; Paul Kiparsky: Compositional vs. Paradigmatic
Approaches to Accent and Ablaut; Melanie Malzahn: All Indo-European
Compounds Are Derived from a Common Origin: New Evidence for a
Darwinian View of IE Nominal Compounding; Alexander Nikolaev: Time
to Gather Stones Together: Greek la: as and Its Indo-European
Background; Birgit Anette Olsen: Martinet's Rule of Laryngeal
Hardening: A Reappraisal; Jens Elmegard Rasmussen: Some Debated
Hittite Verbs: Marginalia to Recent Scholarship; Kazuhiko Yoshida:
1st Singular Iterated Mediopassive Endings in Anatolian
The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European
Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes
participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all
aspects of Indo-European studies. Contents: Chundra Cathcart: RUKI
in the Nuristani Languages: An Assessment; Michael Ellsworth: The
First Palatalization of Greek; Randall Gordon: Verbal Arguments and
the Verbal Noun in Old Irish; Dieter Gunkel and Kevin Ryan: Hiatus
Avoidance and Metrification in the Rigveda; Gary Holland: Active
and Passive in Hittite Infinitival Constructions; Mattyas Huggard:
On Wh-(Non)-Movement and Internal Structures of the Hittite
Preposed Relative Clause; Alexander Lubotsky: The Origin of
Sanskrit Roots of the Type s?v- 'to sew', d?v- 'to play dice', with
an Appendix on Vedic i-Perfects; H. Craig Melchert: The PIE Verb
for 'to pour' and Medial *h3 in Anatolian; Gregory Nagy: The Aeolic
Component of Homeric Diction; Kanehiro Nishimura: On the Chronology
of Vowel Contraction in Latin Marc Pierce: The Status of the ONSET
PRINCIPLE in Early Germanic; Ryan Platte: Pindaric Mythopoesis;
Ryan Sandell: The Morphophonology of Reduplicated Presents in Vedic
and Indo-European; Christopher Wilhelm: The Aeneid and Italian
Prehistory
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