Tendre l’arc

Comparaisons entre le Rāmāyaṇa et l’Odyssée

  • Giles Andrianne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.81.2.307-319
Keywords: comparatism, structuralism, Rāmāyaṇa, Odyssey, Homer, bow, archery, Rāma, Ulysses, Heracles, svayaṃ vara, kingship

Abstract

Research in comparatism between Greek and Indian archaic texts revealed major connections between Mahābhārata 1, 175–181 and Odyssey 21, and specifically structural similarities between Odysseus’ return and Arjuna’s marriage to Draupadī. Moreover, Rāmāyaṇa 1, 66 also shows resemblance with the Greek text: the bending of the bow accomplished by Odysseus and Rāma revealed striking structural, textual and phraseologic parallels, which comforts the idea of common episodes and patterns in the Indo-Greek area.

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Author Biography

Giles Andrianne

Gilles Andrianne is a young researcher who graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Classical Literature, and from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Oriental Literature. His PhD (in progress) revolves around the bow and archers in Greek archaic poetry on phraseological, linguistic and mythological points of view, in comparison to archery as depicted in the Indian and Hittite material.

Published
2013-09-12
How to Cite
Andrianne, G. (2013). Tendre l’arc: Comparaisons entre le Rāmāyaṇa et l’Odyssée. Archiv orientální, 81(2), 307-319. https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.81.2.307-319
Issue
Vol. 81 No. 2 (2013)
Section
Research Article

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