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001 2012007843
003 DLC
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008 120224s2013 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012007843
020 $a9781107022409 (hardback)
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042 $apcc
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050 00 $aP525$b.W66 2013
082 00 $a930/.04034$223
084 $aLCO003000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWoodard, Roger D.
245 10 $aMyth, ritual, and the warrior in Roman and Indo-European antiquity /$cRoger Woodard.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
263 $a1210
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. This mythic portrayal of the returned warrior is consistent with modern studies of similar behavior among soldiers returning from war. Roger Woodard,Ŵs research identifies a common origin of these myths in the ancestral proto-Indo-European culture, in which rites were enacted to enable warriors to reintegrate themselves as functional members of society. He also compares the Italic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic mythic traditions surrounding the warrior, paying particular attention to Roman myth and ritual, notably to the etiologies and rites of the July festivals of the Poplifugia and Nonae Caprotinae, and to the October rites of the Sororium Tigillum"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface; 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.
650 0 $aIndo-European antiquities.
650 0 $aSoldiers in literature.
650 0 $aMythology, Roman, in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.$2bisacsh