The Wider Context: Common Elements in Indo-Iranian, Greek and other Poetic Traditions and Mythologies

摘要

This review article aims (a) to introduce this book to a wider readership (b) to present concisely what I see to be its most important findings for the study of Indo-European poetry and mythology (c) to add some additional material from my knowledge of this field, especially within the Indo-Iranian tradition, and (d) to make an over-all evaluation of the book.rnWhen Martin West was awarded the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies by the British Academy in 2002 he was described in the dedication as "the most brilliant and productive Greek scholar of his generation, not just in the United Kingdom, but worldwide". Though by his own admission he is not a comparative philologist, he has taken an increasing interest in the place of Greek in the Indo-European stemma and as early as 1973 he wrote an article on metre in the parent language.