1. Two more Homeric scenes in India
- Creator:
- Derrett, J. Duncan M.
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- India and Homeric Hymns
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- That early Buddhists were acquainted with the Homeric Hymns is vehemently suspected. That Homer’s epics were used by them has not been suspected. Buddhists of perhaps the third to fourth centuries clearly used two episodes, the Pyre of Patroclus and Odysseus’ Bow. Adaptations and variations lead to a suspicion that the stories, admired by Buddhist authors, were worked over more than once. That the Greek text of the original epics was used at that relatively late period has not been established.
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