"New Online from the CHS - Shubha Pathak, Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India" - Maitani

"Acknowledgments Note on Texts and Translations Introduction. Defining Epics through Comparison 1. The Epic Identity of the Iliad and Odyssey: Pindar and Herodotus’ Lofty Legacy 2. The Epic Metaphor of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata: Ānandavardhana and Rājaśekhara’s Expedient Influence 3. Listening to Achilles and to Odysseus: Poetic Kings on the Ideal of Kléos in the Homeric Epics 4. Hearkening to Kuśa and Lava and to Nala: Poetic Monarchs on the Ideal of Dharma in the Hindu Epics Conclusion. Affirmative and Interrogative Epics Bibliography" - Maitani