Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India

Shubha Pathakexplores a new way to connect the primary Sanskrit epicsRamaya?a and Mahabharata with their Greek analogues, the Iliad and Odyssey. This cross-cultural comparative study provides a more comprehensive perspective on the poems’ religiosity than the vantage points of Hellenists or of Indologists alone.