TY - BOOK ID - 30473682 TI - Indo-European poetry and myth PY - 2008 SN - 9780199558919 0199558914 1281153869 9786611153861 0191565407 019153577X 1435623304 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Indo-European literature KW - Mythology, Indo-European. KW - Poetry, Ancient KW - Mythology, Indo-European, in literature. KW - Mythology, Indo-European KW - Mythology, Indo-European, in literature KW - Indo-European mythology KW - Mythology, Aryan KW - Ancient poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Poetry KW - Comparative religion KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30473682 AB - The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was influenced by Near Easterntraditions, mainly non-Indo-European. His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements of more ancient, Indo-Eur ER -