Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty - Rilegato

Dumezil, Georges

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ISBN 10: 0942299124 ISBN 13: 9780942299120

Casa editrice: Zone Books, 1988

Riassunto

In his work the late Georges Dumézil, arguably the most important modern mythologist, demonstrated that every Indo-European religious and social system was structured according to three primary functions: sovereignty, war, and fertility. Mitra-Varuna, a penetrating inquiry into the first of these functions - religious and political sovereignty - is among the first of his texts to implement this revolutionary theory.Dumézil shows how, from Vedic India to Ireland from Caucasia to Rome, and from Iran to Old Germany, the sovereign gods and heroes always appear in couples: the creative but violent legislator and his counterpart, the conservative guarantor of world order. In effect, Mitra-Varuna presents an archaeology of representations of religious and political power.Georges Dumézil a member of the Académie Française, was Professor of Indo-European Civilization in the College de France. He is the author of numerous books including Camillus, The Gods of the Ancient Northmen, and The Stakes of the Warrior.Derek Coltman lives in England and is the translator of Dumézil's From Myth to Fiction.

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Georges Dumézil a member of the Academic Française, was Professor of Indo-European Civilization in the College de France. He is the author of numerous books including Camillus, The Gods of the Ancient Northmen, and The Stakes of the Warrior.

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• Editore: Zone Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0942299124
• ISBN 13: 9780942299120
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 189