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How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics Watkins, Calvert (Professor of Linguistics and Classics, Professor of Linguistics and Classics, Harvard University)
How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics
Watkins, Calvert (Professor of Linguistics and Classics, Professor of Linguistics and Classics, Harvard University)
This work follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. The author uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language.
630 pages, 3 illustrations, bibliography
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 17, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195144130 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 640 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 235 × 33 mm · 889 g |
| Language | English |