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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

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