It's better in America: A book of superlatives

Mahony, Patrick

Institute for the Study of Man

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, November 3-4, 2007 (selected papers) (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series No. 54)

Edgar C. Polome: Karl Kerenyi?A biographical sketchEdgar C. Polome: Some thoughts on the methodology of Comparative Religion, with special focus on Indo EuropeanR. Panikkar: Yama?A Myth of the Primordial ManFrithjof Hallman: The LabyrinthMythology and landscapeHellmut Sichtermann: Kerenyi's humanistic approach to ancient religionJohannes Kleinstuck: Mythical night and night of a mythFuri Jesi: Reflections on the Pseudo Euripidean RhesosGodo Lieberg: The Theologia Tripertita as an intellectual modelGeo Widengren: ?Was Not Then Our Heart Burning in Us?Hans Peter Isler: The animal frieze in archaic Greek art.

Essays in Memory of Karl Kerènyi (Journal of Indo-European Studies)

R. Panikkar

Frithjof Hallman

Hellmut Sichtermann

Johannes Kleinstück

Furi Jesi

Godo Lieberg

Geo Widengren

Hans Peter Isler

Edgar C. Polomé

Religion & Spirituality

Jean Haudry: Comparative Mythology and Comparative PhilologyJaan Puhvel: The Warrior at StakeHoni Soit Qui Mal y PenseUdo Strutynski: From Swords in the Earth to the Sword in the StoneC. Scott Littleton: A Possible Reflection of an Alano Sarmatian Rite of Passage in the Arthurian TraditionBruce Lincoln: Places Outside Space, Moments Outside TimeAlf Hiltebeitel: Brothers, Friends, and Charioteers?Parallel Episodes in the Irish and Indian EpicsFrancois Xavier Dillmann: Katla and Her Distaff?An Episode of Tri Functional Magic in the Eyrbyggja Saga?J.C. Riviere: The Three CounselsT.L. Markey: The Cosmology of Lear and His DaughtersEric P. Hamp: Beowulf 2863a [g].

Homage to Georges Dumézil (Journal of Indo-European Studies)

C. Scott Littleton

Jean Haudry

Jaan Puhvel

Udo Strutynski

Bruce Lincoln

Alf Hiltebeitel

François-Xavier Dillmann

J.C.Rivière

T.L. Markey

A. Richard Diebold, Jr.: Linguistic Ways to Prehistory; Winfred P. Lehmann: Linguistic and Archaeological Data for Handbooks of Proto-Languages; János Nemeskéri and László Szathmáry: An Anthropological Evaluation of the IE Problem; Nikolai Ja. Merpert: Ethnocultural Change in the Balkans in the Eneolithic; Sándor Bökönyi: Horses and Sheep in the Copper and Bronze Ages; Homer L. Thomas: The Indo-Europeans—Some Historical and Theoretical Considerations; János Makkay: The Linear Pottery and the Early Indo-Europeans; Eric P. Hamp: The Pig in Ancient Northern Europe; Ralph M. Rowlett: Grave Wealth in the Horodenka Group; Christopher Hawkes: Archaeologists and Indo-Europeanists—Can They Mate?; Edgar C. Polomé: Who are the Germanic People?; Gregory Nagy: The IE Heritage of Tribal Organization—Evidence from the Greek polis; Bruce Lincoln: On the Scythian Royal Burials; Calvert Watkins: Linguistic and Archaeological Light on Some Homeric Formulas; T.L. Markey: Morning, Evening,

Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (Journal of Indo-European Studies)

History

A. Richard Diebold

Winfred P. Lehman

János Nemeskéri & Lászlo Szathmáry

Nikolai Ja. Merpert

Sándor Bökönyl

Homer L. Thomas

János Makkay

Americas

Perspectives on Indo-European Language, Culture and Religion: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polome (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series No.7) (English, French and German Edition)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Apollo, the Olympian god of the sun, was well known as the god of music, poetry, light, medicine and truth, but one of his numerous titles was Lycegenes, literally "born of a wolf", and a statue of a wolf adorned his temple at Delphi. Though nurtured by a wolf as a baby, less attention has been paid to Apollo as a wolf god. Daniel E. Gershensen uncovers a wide range of Apollo's links to wolves, wind-wolves, werewolves, and even to the ancient fraternities of human werewolves still remembered in parts of Europe into recent centuries. We read about the werewolf "army of the dead" that survived in Germanic folk lore as "the Wild Hunt," so faithfully recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Aristotle's Lyceum, or "wolf place", was so-named because it stood close to a temple dedicated to the wolf-god Apollo, who was also the god of knowledge. Even the English fairy tale about the Three Little Pigs, in which a wolf huff'd and puff'd to blow their houses down, is shown to be a survival from early beli

Apollo the Wolf-God

Gershenson, Daniel

Perspectives on Indo-European Language, Culture and Religion: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polome: 002 (English, French and German Edition)

The Prehistory of the Glottalic Theory; THE GLOTTALIC THEORY: Classic Statements of the Theory; Critical Responses; Refinements & Additional Variants. IMPLICATIONS OF THE GLOTTALIC THEORY: Reformulating Some Laws of IE; Dialectal Developments; Distant Genetic Relationships; KEY ISSUES AND SOME MIDDLE GROUND: The Traditional Plain Voiced Series; The Traditional Voiced Aspirate Series; THE CHRONOLOGICAL SOLUTION: On the Role of Typology in Reconstruction; Theoretical Issues; Phonetics & Phonology in Reconstruction; A Note on Linguistic Methodology; Summary; Conclusion, and Outlook.

The Glottalic Theory: Survey and Synthesis (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monographs)

Salmons, Joseph C.

Relationship and ReconstructionPrinciples of TypologyTypology and ReconstructionIndo-European PhonologyMorphologyIndo-European Nominal MorphologyIndo-European Verbal MorphologyBibliography.

Linguistic Typology, Universality and the Realism of Reconstruction (Journal of Indo-Europeans Studies Monograph Series No. 12)

Schwink, Frederick W.

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