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Myth, ritual, and the warrior in Roman and Indo-European antiquity /
"This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. This m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- People flee
- And Romulus disappears
- At the shrines of Vulcan
- Where space varies
- Warriors in crisis
- Structures: matrix and continuum
- Remote spaces
- Erotic women and the (un)averted gaze
- Clairvoyant women
- Watery spaces
- Return to order
- Further conclusions and interpretations.