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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
To cite this work:
Pathak, Shubha. 2014. Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India. Hellenic Studies Series 62. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.
