Indo-European Poetry and Myth
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 May 2007
- ISBN 9780199280759
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages540 pages
- Size 242x163x34 mm
- Weight 923 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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; metre, 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.
The book deserves a warm welcome. Steady work has gone into the writing of it, and M. L. West's ability to detect analogies and to make comparisons has again been deployed to good effect
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Poet and Poesy
Phrase and Figure
Gods and Goddesses
Sky and Earth
Sun and Daughter
Storm and Stream
Nymphs and Gnomes
Hymns and Spells
Cosmos and Canon
Mortality and Fame
King and Hero
Arms and the Man
Elegy on an Indo-European Hero
