ENGL 221 Lecture 15: Other Epic Poems notes
6 Feb 2018
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Outside the mediterranean world: bhagavad gita = india, beowulf = northern europe, comparing universal patterns and understanding two different cultures. Bhagavad gita: center: relationship between humans and gods, title: the song of the lord , part of a longer epic poem: mahabharata (7 times longer than god iliad + Odyssey: structure; 700 verses and 18 chapters, origin (probably) 4th century bce, author is unknown (vyasa?, but the story dates back to the 1500 bce = when the indo-aryan people reached the. Indus river valley: language = sanskrit, related to greek, latin, germanic, and slavic languages, => the similarities between the bhagavad gita and the homeric epic poems may due to a common culture rather than mutual in uences. Bhagavad gita is not only a literary text but ask a fundamental text for hinduism.
