Roger D. Woodard

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781107022409
• ISBN-10: 1107022401
• Artikelnr.: 35488934

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.