Shubha Pathak, Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India

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Shubha Pathak, Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India. Acknowledgments. Note on Texts and Translations. Introduction. Defining Epics through Comparison. 1. The Epic Identity of the Iliad and Odyssey: Pindar and Herodotus’ Lofty Legacy. 2. The Epic Metaphor of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata: Ānandavardhana and Rājaśekhara’s Expedient Influence. 3. Listening to Achilles and to Odysseus: Poetic Kings on the Ideal of Kléos in the Homeric Epics. 4. Hearkening to Kuśa and Lava and to Nala: Poetic Monarchs on the Ideal of Dharma in the Hindu Epics. Conclusion. Affirmative and Interrogative Epics. Bibliography And See AWOL's List of.

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• title_full: Shubha Pathak, Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India
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• Shubha Pathak, Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Texts and Translations
• Introduction. Defining Epics through Comparison
• 1. The Epic Identity of the Iliad and Odyssey: Pindar and Herodotus’ Lofty Legacy
• 2. The Epic Metaphor of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata: Ānandavardhana and Rājaśekhara’s Expedient Influence
• 3. Listening to Achilles and to Odysseus: Poetic Kings on the Ideal of Kléos in the Homeric Epics
• 4. Hearkening to Kuśa and Lava and to Nala: Poetic Monarchs on the Ideal of Dharma in the Hindu Epics
• Conclusion. Affirmative and Interrogative Epics
• Bibliography

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http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5854