An Underlying Divinatory Structure Common to Bharata and Semonides

Kenneth Zysk

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In: Castalia: Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, Mythology, and Poetics

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Pages:: 256–274

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538283_014

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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.

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Castalia: Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, Mythology, and Poetics

Series: Leiden Studies in Indo-European, Volume: 23

Cover <i>Castalia</i>: Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, Mythology, and Poetics

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 03 May 2023

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  - Historical and Comparative Linguistics & Linguistic Typology
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