Indo-European Poetry and Myth

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Indo-European Poetry and Myth
Author Martin L. West
LanguageEnglish
Subject Indo-European studies
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
2007
Pages525

Indo-European Poetry and Myth is a 2007 non-fiction book on comparative Proto-Indo-European mythology by the British philologist and classicist Martin Litchfield West.

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Published by Oxford University Press, the book is a work of comparative religion focused on Indo-European literature and religion. Rather than relying solely on linguistic reconstruction, West also examines shared concepts and mythological motifs across the various Indo-European traditions. [1] Like Indogermanische Religion (2025) by Norbert Oettinger and Peter Jackson Rova, it builds on a comparative method of reconstruction previously established by Calvert Watkins in How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (1995). [2]

Reception

An article in The New Yorker described it as "the most comprehensive treatment" of Indo-European mythology available in English. [2] American Indologist Wendy Doniger praised in as the "definitive book on Indo-European language and religion" in the London Review of Books . [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Rite, Ethan (2021). "The Indo-European Religious Background of the Gygēs Tale in Hērodotos". Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics. 8 (1).
  2. 1 2 Singh, Manvir (2025-10-13). "The Hunt for the World's Oldest Story". The New Yorker . ISSN   0028-792X.
  3. ↑ Doniger 2008.
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