Arjuna-Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic

Bringing together the study of the Greek Classics and Indology, Arjuna-Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahābhārata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod.

Author: N. J. Allen
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: 11/20/2019
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780367348304

About the Author

N. J. Allen is a social anthropologist and a retired Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford, UK. His research interests are Himalayan studies, world-historical approach to kinship systems, sociology of Durkheim and more especially Mauss, and Indo-European cultural comparativism.