Pindar's Rigveda.(Greek and Vedic poetry)(Critical Essay): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society

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From the author: In Vedic the poetic phonetic focusing on a name both directly and obliquely in an anagram has a poetic syntactic analogue: constituents may either adjoin one another or he separated by other elements of the sentence (hyperbaton). Both phenomena are manifestations of an opposition of overt vs. covert constituency. A particular Vedic instantiation of the latter is the distraction of clause-initial sa, with either third- or second-person reference, from the name or antecedent to which it refers and from its verbal predicate. These figures are Common Indo-Iranian. The Greek choral lyric poet Pindar gives evidence for both phonetic anagram and the same syntactic hyperbaton of the determiner-article o, the cognate of sa, which in context suggests common stylistic inheritance.

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Title: Pindar's Rigveda.(Greek and Vedic poetry)(Critical Essay)
Author: Calvert Watkins
Publication:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 122 Issue: 2 Page: 432(4)

Article Type: Critical Essay

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