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Paperback. Condition: New. The central character of Divine Yet Human Epics is the developing conception of epic itself. Its story unfolds as the ancient Greek idea of epic originates with Pindar and Herodotus on the basis of the Iliad and Odyssey. While this notion eventually leads their Sanskrit counterparts, the Ramaya?a and Mahabharata, to be understood selectively in modern times, medieval readers Anandavardhana and Rajasekhara reveal distinctive features of these ancient Indian poems earlier in this exegetical tale. Shubha Pathak's interpretative account concludes with a new way to connect these primary epics to their Greek analogues. Both epic pairs feature poetic kings who together affirm and interrogate their societies' central religious ideals: Greek kléos (or heroic glory, which assuages uncertainty about the afterlife) and Indian dharma (or righteousness, which counters encroaching immorality). The Greek and Sanskrit epics, by showing both the divine ease and the human difficulty with which kléos and dharma are achieved, employ similar teaching strategies to address the shared psychological needs of human beings learning to live within the disparate cultures of ancient Greece and India. This cross-cultural comparative study thus provides a more comprehensive perspective on the poems' religiosity than the vantage points of Hellenists or of Indologists alone.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. Aesop, fabulist and riddle warrior, is assimilated to the pharmakos-the wretched human scapegoat who is expelled from the city or killed in response to a crisis-after satirizing the Delphians. In much the same way, Dumezil's Indo-European heroes, Starkathr and Suibhne, are both warrior-poets persecuted by patron deities. This book views the scapegoat as a group's dominant warrior, sent out to confront predators or besieging forces. Both poets and warriors specialize in madness and aggression, are necessary to society, yet dangerous to society.…

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Condition: New. Explores a new way to connect the primary Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata with their Greek analogues, the Iliad and Odyssey. This cross-cultural comparative study provides a more comprehensive perspective on the poems' religiosity than the vantage points of Hellenists or of Indologists alone. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2BBA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2014. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" alike refers to something more substantive and complex than 'fame' or 'glory'. This book presents a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece; 1 line. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . …

Condition: New. Explores the place of the sophists within the Greek wisdom tradition, and argues against their almost universal exclusion from serious intellectual traditions. This book offers a revised history of the development of Greek philosophy, as well as of the potential - yet never realized - courses it might have followed. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254. . 2011. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. This colloquium volume celebrates an Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century BCE poet Posidippus. Included in this collection are an unusual collection of voices and perspectives - papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary and aesthetic. Editor(s): Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin; Baumbach, Manuel; Kosmetatou, Elizabeth. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486. . 2004. Paperback. . . . .…

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Condition: New. This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. It views the scapegoat as a group's dominant warrior, sent out to confront predators or besieging forces. Both poets and warriors specialize in madness and aggression and are necessary, yet dangerous, to society. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 370 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 670. . 2006. Paperback. . . . .…

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Condition: New. Explores a new way to connect the primary Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata with their Greek analogues, the Iliad and Odyssey. This cross-cultural comparative study provides a more comprehensive perspective on the poems' religiosity than the vantage points of Hellenists or of Indologists alone. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2BBA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Condition: New. This colloquium volume celebrates an Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century BCE poet Posidippus. Included in this collection are an unusual collection of voices and perspectives - papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary and aesthetic. Editor(s): Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin; Baumbach, Manuel; Kosmetatou, Elizabeth. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486. . 2004. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: New. Explores the place of the sophists within the Greek wisdom tradition, and argues against their almost universal exclusion from serious intellectual traditions. This book offers a revised history of the development of Greek philosophy, as well as of the potential - yet never realized - courses it might have followed. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: New. As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" alike refers to something more substantive and complex than 'fame' or 'glory'. This book presents a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece; 1 line. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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