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In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent theesgod and warrior, king and virgin, fire and watergive life to Comparative Mythology as both a general introduction and a detaled reference.

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A judicious evaluation of what has been written about Indo-European mythology over the past forty years. Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Directions
Chapter 1. The Study of Myth
Chapter 2. Creation Myth in the Ancient Near East
Chapter 3. The Concepts "Indo-European" and "Indo-Iranian"
Part II: Traditions
Chapter 4. Vedic India
Chapter 5. Epic India
Chapter 6. Ancient Iran
Chapter 7. Epic Iran
Chapter 8. Ancient Greece
Chapter 9. Ancient Rome
Chapter 10. Celtic Myth
Chapter 11. Germanic Myth
Chapter 12. Baltic and Slavic Myth
Part III: Themes
Chapter 13. God and Warrior
Chapter 14. King and Virgin
Chapter 15. Horse and Ruler
Chapter 16. Fire in Water
Chapter 17. Twin and Brother
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 September 1989
      ISBN-13 9780801839382
      978-0801839382
      ISBN-10 0801839386
      Also in:
      Folklore studies / Study of myth

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent theesgod and warrior, king and virgin, fire and watergive life to Comparative Mythology as both a general introduction and a detaled reference.

      Trade Review
      A judicious evaluation of what has been written about Indo-European mythology over the past forty years. Times Literary Supplement

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Introduction
      Part I: Directions
      Chapter 1. The Study of Myth
      Chapter 2. Creation Myth in the Ancient Near East
      Chapter 3. The Concepts "Indo-European" and "Indo-Iranian"
      Part II: Traditions
      Chapter 4. Vedic India
      Chapter 5. Epic India
      Chapter 6. Ancient Iran
      Chapter 7. Epic Iran
      Chapter 8. Ancient Greece
      Chapter 9. Ancient Rome
      Chapter 10. Celtic Myth
      Chapter 11. Germanic Myth
      Chapter 12. Baltic and Slavic Myth
      Part III: Themes
      Chapter 13. God and Warrior
      Chapter 14. King and Virgin
      Chapter 15. Horse and Ruler
      Chapter 16. Fire in Water
      Chapter 17. Twin and Brother
      Index

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