Pindar and Aeschylus’s Atharvaveda

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Pindar and Aeschylus’s Atharvaveda. / Massetti, Laura.

In: Muenchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Vol. 71, No. 1, 2017, p. 31–50.

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Massetti, L 2017, 'Pindar and Aeschylus’s Atharvaveda', Muenchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 31–50.

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Massetti, L. (2017). Pindar and Aeschylus’s Atharvaveda. Muenchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, 71(1), 31–50.

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Massetti L. Pindar and Aeschylus’s Atharvaveda. Muenchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft. 2017;71(1):31–50.

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Massetti, Laura. / Pindar and Aeschylus’s Atharvaveda. In: Muenchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft. 2017 ; Vol. 71, No. 1. pp. 31–50.

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abstract = "Pind. P. 4.213–219 exhibits the reflexes of a domestic love-charm, the agōgḗ (“a spell to lead [somebody] away”). The same applies for Aeschl. Pr. 647–82 (Io{\textquoteright}s account of her metamorphosis). In both text passages, the love-charm is described by means of a set of images, namely, the {\textquoteleft}arrow (of desire){\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}burning (fire){\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}whip/goad.{\textquoteright} While the very same associations can be found in one Atharvavedic Hymn (AV{\'S} 3.25), some characteristics of the love-charm occur in a more blurred form in an Eddic mythical episode.",
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