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Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty
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By Georges Dumézil, Stuart Elden (Editor), Derek Coltman (Translator), Stuart Elden (Introduction), Veena Das (Afterword)
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A classic text that develops one prong of Dumézil’s tripartite hypothesis of IndoEuropean tribes: the sacred sovereign.
Georges Dumézil’s fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome, Scandinavia, and the Celts yielded an idea that became his most influential scholarly legacy: the tripartite hypothesis, which divides IndoEuropean societal functions into three classes: the sacred sovereign, the warrior, and the producer. MitraVaruna, originally published in 1940, concentrates ...
Georges Dumézil’s fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome, Scandinavia, and the Celts yielded an idea that became his most influential scholarly legacy: the tripartite hypothesis, which divides IndoEuropean societal functions into three classes: the sacred sovereign, the warrior, and the producer. MitraVaruna, originally published in 1940, concentrates ...