Title: Early Rome and Indo-European Comparison: Dominique Briquel on Two Crises
Abstract: Two recent books by Dominique Briquel examine from a Dumezilian viewpoint the ancient accounts of the birth of the Roman Republic and of the Gaulish siege. They present a number of trifunctional analyses, many of them new, and interpret both stories in the light of Dumezil's eschatological reading of the Mahābhārata. The present article explores the same material in the light of the theory that Indo-European ideology was fundamentally pentadic rather than triadic, and proposes some additional comparisons with the Sanskrit epic.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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