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The IndoEuropeans 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 nonIndoEuropean His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements of more ancient IndoEuropean heritage in the Greek material Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in IndoEuropean societies meter style and diction gods and other supernatural beings from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the Sungod and his beautiful daughter the Thundergod 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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Georges Dumézil founder of the new comparative mythology discovered that all IndoEuropean religions are articulated according to three hierarchical functions sacred sovereignty force and fecundity In MitraVaruna he develops this general theory but concentrates on the most important of these functions sovereignty In particular Dumézil shows that religious andor political sovereignty from India to Rome from Iran to Scandinavia is conceived as a dual category on the one hand the magicianking raj rex on the other the juristpriest brahman flamen MitraVaruna combines extraordinarv scholarship and theoretical discovery with the pleasures of storytelling A founding work of comparative mythology it is today a seminal essay in the archaeology of powerDistributed for Zone Books
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This Textbook on IndoEuropean Linguistics is designed as an introduction to the field It presents current topics and questions in IndoEuropean linguistics in a clear and informative manner This is the English translation of the eight edition of the work first published by Hans Krahe and it takes account of more recent research While Krahe only considered phonology and morphology the edition also includes a comprehensive account of syntax and lexis Manfred Mayrhofer assisted with the section of phonology Matthias Fritz wrote the section on syntax and provided support for the project as a whole
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