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How to kill a dragon: aspects of Indo-European poetics
Calvert Watkins
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Frontmatter
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ASPECTS OF INDO-EUROPEAN POETICS
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I. The Field of Comparative Poetics: Introduction and Background
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1. The comparative method in linguistics and poetics (page 3)
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2. Sketch for a history of Indo-European poetics (page 12)
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3. Poetics as grammar: Typology of poetic devices, and some rules of poetic grammar (page 28)
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4. Poetics as repertory: The poetic tradtions of the Indo-European world﹘Sources and texts (page 50)
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5. The Indo-European poet: His social function and his art (page 68)
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6. The poet's truth: The power, particularity, and preservation of the word (page 85)
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II. Case Studies
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7. Greece and the art of the word (page 97)
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8. Vedic India and the art of the word (page 109)
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9. Ireland and the art of the syllable (page 117)
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10. Saxa loquuntur: The first age of poetry in Italy﹘Faliscan and South Picene (page 126)
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11. Most ancient Indo-Europeans (page 135)
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12. The comparison of formulaic sequences (page 152)
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13. An Indo-European stylistic figure (page 165)
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14. A late Indo-European traditional epithet (page 170)
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15. An Indo-European theme and formula: Imperishable fame (page 173)
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16. The hidden track of the cow: Obscure styles in Indo-European (page 179)
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III. The Strophic Style: An Indo-European Poetic Form
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17. Some Indo-European prayers: Cato's lustration of the fields (page 197)
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18. Umbira: The Tables of Iguvium (page 214)
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19. Italy and Indiea: The elliptic offering (page 226)
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20. Strophic structures as "rhythmic prose"? Italic (page 229)
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21. Strophic structures in Iranian (page 232)
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22. 'Truth of truth', 'most kavi of kavis', 'throng-lord of throngs': An Indo-Iranian stylistic figure (page 241)
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23. More strophic structures (page 247)
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24. Early Irish rosc (page 255)
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25. The Aśvamedha or Horse Sacrifice: An Indo-European liturgical form (page 265)
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26. Orphic gold leaves and the great way of the soul: Strophic style, funerary ritual formula, and eschatology (page 277)
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HOW TO KILL A DRAGON IN INDO-EUROPEAN: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF THE FORUMULA
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IV. The Basic Formula and Its Variants in the Narration of the Myth
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27. Preliminaries (page 297)
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28. The root *gᵘhen-: Vedic han- (page 304)
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29. The root *gᵘhen-: Avestan jan- (page 313)
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30. The root *gᵘhen-: Hittite kuen- and the Indo-European theme and forumula (page 321)
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31. The slayer slain: A reciprocal forumula (page 324)
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32. First varient: The root *ṷdeh- (page 330)
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33. 'Like a reed': The Indo-European background of a Luvian ritual (page 335)
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34. Second varient: the root *terh₂- (page 343)
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35. Latin tarentum, the ludi saeculares, and Indo-European eschatology (page 347)
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36. The myth in Greece: Variations on the forumula and theme (page 357)
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37. Expansion of the formula: A recursive formulaic figure (page 370)
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38. Herakles, the formulaic hero (page 374)
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39. Hermes, Enualios, and Lukoworgos: The Serpent-slayer and the Man-slayer (page 383)
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40. Nektar and the adversary Death (page 391)
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41. The saga of Iphitos and the hero as monster (page 398)
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42. The name of Meleager (page 408)
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43. The Germanic world (page 414)
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44. Thor's hammer and the mace of Contract (page 429)
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V. Some Indo-European Dragons and Dragon-Slayers
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45. Fergus mac Léti and the muirdris (page 441)
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46. Typhoeus and the Illuyankas (page 448)
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47. Python and Ahi Budhnya, the Serpent of the Deep (page 460)
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48. Aži dakāka, Viśvarūpa, and Geryon (page 464)
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VI. From Myth to Epic
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49. From God to hero: The formulaic network in Greek (page 471)
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50. The best of the Achaeans (page 483)
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51. To be the death of: Transformation and the formula (page 488)
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52. The formula without the word: A note on Euripides and Lysias (page 493)
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53. The basic formula and the announcement of death (page 499)
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54. Further Indo-European comparisons and themes (page 505)
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55. The song of victory in Greek (page 510)
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VII. From Myth to Charm
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56. From dragon to worm (page 519)
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57. The charms of Indo-European (page 525)
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58. The Indo-European medical doctrine (page 537)
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59. The poet as healer (page 540)
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Abbreviations (page 545)
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References (page 550)
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Indexes of names and subjects (page 577)
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Index of passages (page 586)
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Index of words (page 601)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CW | 92.2 (Nov.- Dec. 1998): 175-176 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4352252 |
JRAI | 6.1 (Mar. 2000): 159-160 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2660799 |
JAF | 112.444 (Spring. 1999): 220-222 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/541955 |
CR | 50.1 (2000): 101-103 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3065322 |
JAOS | 117.2 (Apr.- Jun. 1997): 397-398 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/605527 |
CLJ | 92.4 (Apr.- May 1997): 417-422 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3298411 |
LAN | 73.3 (Sept. 1997): 637-641 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3298411 |
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Published: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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