Castalia: Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, Mythology, and Poetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53827-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Indo-European

Since the beginning of Indo-European Studies, linguists have attempted to reconstruct aspects of the Indo-European traditions that go beyond the ‘atomic’ dimensions of related languages, such as inherited aspects of Indo-European texts and traits shared by cognate pantheons and narratives. The chapters in this volume address these very aspects of cultural reconstruction.

Interdisciplinary case-studies on poetic features, religion and mythology of several ancient Indo-European languages (Ancient Greek, Latin and Italic, Hittite, Phrygian, Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Norse, Old Irish and Old Russian) work at the intersection of linguistic reconstruction and philology. The results of these investigations shed new light on a variety of aspects, ranging from obscure etymologies to the reconstruction of the genetic link among entire Indo-European myths.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massetti, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Charts, and Tables

Introduction

Laura Massetti

1 Ritual Speech in the Neo-Phrygian Funerary Curse Formulae

Milena Anfosso

2 Homo homini lupus: Anatolian Echoes of Indo-European Ideology

Michele Bianconi

3 Upholding Heaven and Earth, Upholding the Cosmos

José Luis García Ramón

4 The Myth of Baldr’s Death and the Vedic Wounded Sun

The Old Norse Theonyms Nanna Neps-dóttir (‘Maiden Sky’s-Daughter’) and Hoðr (‘Darkness’) in Germanic and Indo-European Perspective

Riccardo Ginevra

5 Hecate and Her Dogs

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen

6 Homeric ??d?e?f??t?? and the Unraveling of an Unmetrical Verse

Stefan Höfler

7 Mirror Images and Cross(dress)ing

Some Indo-European Intersections between the Gesta Danorum and the Vira?a Parvan of the Mahabharata

Stephanie W. Jamison

8 Thoughts of Gathic Beginnings and Beginnings of Gathic Thoughts

Joshua T. Katz

9 From Kenning to Insult: Old Norse, Old Irish and Russian Carrions and Their Indo-European Background

Claire Le Feuvre

10 Form in Latin and Umbrian Sacral Verse

Angelo O. Mercado

11 Where All the Killed Dragons Graze: Luw. ala/i- wiluš(a)-, ???s??? ?e?µ?? and the PIE Concept of the Netherworld

Rostislav Oreshko

12 An Underlying Divinatory Structure Common to Bharata and Semonides

Kenneth Zysk

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Massetti obtained her Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Linguistics from the University of Cologne. She is a Researcher at University of Naples L’Orientale
and an Affiliate of Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Her scientific interests comprise Archaic Greek Literature, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Mythology and Religion.