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UNINA9910786171103321 |
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Autore |
Woodard Roger D. |
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Titolo |
Myth, ritual, and the warrior in Roman and Indo-European antiquity / / Roger Woodard [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-139-85408-9 |
1-107-23589-8 |
1-139-84591-8 |
1-139-84145-9 |
1-139-84500-4 |
1-139-84026-6 |
1-139-84264-1 |
1-139-13642-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indo-European antiquities |
Soldiers in literature |
Mythology, Roman, in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. People flee -- 2. And Romulus disappears -- 3. At the shrines of Vulcan -- 4. Where space varies -- 5. Warriors in crisis -- 6. Structures: matrix and continuum -- 7. Remote spaces -- 8. Erotic women and the (un)averted gaze -- 9. Clairvoyant women -- 10. Watery spaces -- 11. Return to order -- 12. Further conclusions and interpretations. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 mythic portrayal of the returned warrior is consistent with modern studies of similar behavior among soldiers returning from war. Roger Woodard's research identifies a common origin of these myths in the ancestral proto-Indo-European culture, in which rites were enacted |
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