An Underlying Divinatory Structure Common to Bharata and Semonides
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An Underlying Divinatory Structure Common to Bharata and Semonides. / Zysk, Kenneth Gregory.
Castalia: Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, Mythology, and Poetics. ed. / Laura Massetti. Leiden/Boston : Brill, 2023. p. 256-274 (Leiden Studies in Indo-European, Vol. 23).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - An Underlying Divinatory Structure Common to Bharata and Semonides
AU - Zysk, Kenneth Gregory
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This comparative study finds similarities between the 7th century BCE Greek iambic poem of Semonides on Women and Sanskirt anuṣṭubh verses from Bharata’s Nāṭyaśāstra from the 2nd century BCE to the 2nd century CE, which describe character-types of women depicted on stage. Both use a fixed set of animals, five of which are shared, to illustrate the female character-types and both share a conditional syntactical structure common to omen literature, but expressed in different ways. Semonides’ poetry and humour are replaced by a Bharata’s didacticism aimed at the instruction of actors. Their common connection to drama and performance suggests a link between the Greek symposium and the Indian goṣṭhī as a possible mode for the transmission of ideas in the early centuries of the Common Era.
AB - This comparative study finds similarities between the 7th century BCE Greek iambic poem of Semonides on Women and Sanskirt anuṣṭubh verses from Bharata’s Nāṭyaśāstra from the 2nd century BCE to the 2nd century CE, which describe character-types of women depicted on stage. Both use a fixed set of animals, five of which are shared, to illustrate the female character-types and both share a conditional syntactical structure common to omen literature, but expressed in different ways. Semonides’ poetry and humour are replaced by a Bharata’s didacticism aimed at the instruction of actors. Their common connection to drama and performance suggests a link between the Greek symposium and the Indian goṣṭhī as a possible mode for the transmission of ideas in the early centuries of the Common Era.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004538283_014
DO - 10.1163/9789004538283_014
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789004538276
T3 - Leiden Studies in Indo-European
SP - 256
EP - 274
BT - Castalia
A2 - Massetti, Laura
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden/Boston
ER -
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