Divine Yet Human Epics

Divine Yet Human Epics
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
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ISBN-10 : 0674726758
ISBN-13 : 9780674726758
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Book Synopsis Divine Yet Human Epics by : Shubha Pathak

Download or read book Divine Yet Human Epics written by Shubha Pathak and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shubha Pathak explores a new way to connect the primary Sanskrit epics Ramaya?a and Mahabharata with their Greek analogues, the Iliad and Odyssey. This cross-cultural comparative study provides a more comprehensive perspective on the poems' religiosity than the vantage points of Hellenists or of Indologists alone.


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