Classics 276 - Indo-European Epic

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Bard College

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Linguists and archaeologists have a rough agreement that there existed a people speaking a language called Proto-Indo-European. There is little consensus about that people's original homeland, or the timing or causes for its migrations as far as the Indus Valley at one extreme and Ireland at the other. What can be agreed upon most readily from the linguistic evidence is that they shared not merely a common language and social structures but also common literary genres, principally epic and lyric, in which there are signs of common metaphors and even meters. Hence it is possible to compare passages from epics that originated in oral traditions and later crystallized into such texts as the Mahabharata and Ramayana in India, the Iliad and the Odyssey in Greece, the Norse Elder Edda, and the Irish Táin Bó Cúailng e. All textare read in English.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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