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Arjuna-Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic

Arjuna-Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic

Allen, N. J.

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367260476
ISBN13: 9780367260477
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Nov 26 2019
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Bringing together the study of the Greek classics and Indology, Arjuna-Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahābhārata 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 Mahābhārata and the Greek texts. In exploring the networks of similarities between the two epic traditions, it also reformulates the theory of Georges 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.

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