Description:
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1970). First American edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), xv & 168 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.A fine copy in dust jacket which is quite faded at the spine but otherwise very good.
Contents Include:
Services: The Epic of Tullus Hostilius and the Myths of Indra: Myth and Epic; The "Horatii" and the "Āptya"; Mettius Fuffetius and Namuci; The Warrior Function and its Relations to the other two functions; The Indo-European Heritage.Fatalities: The Three Sins of the Warrior: Solitude and Liberty; Indra the Sinner; The sins and the Losses of Indra; The Three Sins of Starcatherus; The Three Sins of Heracles; Fatalities of the Warrior Function.Promotions: Epiphanies, Dumies, Grimaces: The Moments of a Heroic Career; Vr̥trahán, Vereshraǧna, Vahagn; Warriors and Animal Forms; Scenarios and Accessories; Signs Upon the Hero.
