Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Roger Woodard is the Andrew van Vranken Raymond Professor of the Classics and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York. His many published books include The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology; Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult; Indo-European Myth and Religion: A Manual; Ovid: Fasti (with A. J. Boyle); The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages; Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer: A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy; and On Interpreting Morphological Change: The Greek Reflexive Pronoun. Klappentext This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. Zusammenfassung This book examines the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures! often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. Roger Woodard compares portrayals among these cultures and identifies a common origin of the myths. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. People flee; 2. And Romulus disappears; 3. At the shrines of Vulcan; 4. Where space varies; 5. Warriors in crisis; 6. Structures: matrix and continuum; 7. Remote spaces; 8. Erotic women and the (un)averted gaze; 9. Clairvoyant women; 10. Watery spaces; 11. Return to order; 12. Further conclusions and interpretations.

Klappentext
This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures.

Inhalt
Preface; 1. People flee; 2. And Romulus disappears; 3. At the shrines of Vulcan; 4. Where space varies; 5. Warriors in crisis; 6. Structures: matrix and continuum; 7. Remote spaces; 8. Erotic women and the (un)averted gaze; 9. Clairvoyant women; 10. Watery spaces; 11. Return to order; 12. Further conclusions and interpretations.

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