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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, N. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arjuna (Hindu mythological character).

Arjuna.

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character).

Odysseus.

Homer. Odyssey.

Homer.

Mahābhārata.

Mahābhārata.

Odyssey (Homer).

Physical Description:

1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2019.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Allen, N. J., Arjuna-odysseus

ISBN:

9780367260477

0367260476

9780367348304

0367348306

OCLC:

1101044794