Indo-European Poetry and Myth
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| Author | Martin L. West |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Indo-European studies |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages | 525 |
Indo-European Poetry and Myth is a 2007 non-fiction book on comparative Proto-Indo-European mythology by the British philologist and classicist Martin Litchfield West.
Published by Oxford University Press, the book is a work of comparative religion focused on Indo-European literature and religion. Rather than relying solely on linguistic reconstruction, West also examines shared concepts and mythological motifs across the various Indo-European traditions.[1] Like Indogermanische Religion (2025) by Norbert Oettinger and Peter Jackson Rova, it builds on a comparative method of reconstruction previously established by Calvert Watkins in How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (1995).[2]
Anthropologist Manvir Singh, writing in The New Yorker, described it as "the most comprehensive treatment" of Indo-European mythology available in English.[2] American Indologist Wendy Doniger praised in as the "definitive book on Indo-European language and religion" in the London Review of Books.[3]