The Iliad, the Rāmāyana, and the Work of Religion: Failed Persuasion and Religious Mystification (Hermeneutics, Studies in the History of Religions) (State Archives of Assyria)

by Gregory D . Alles (Author)

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  1994

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  This text examines how two epics from different cultures, the Iliad and the Ramayana , were evoked by and acted upon by their respective societies. It also examines the role of literary persuasion in maintaining harmonious social interaction and in religious mystification.