Η ΕΠΙΚΗ ΦΑΣΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΑΥΛΑΝΔΙΚΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ

Abstract

OUR WORK BEGINS WITH THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ILIAD OF HOMER AND THE THAI RAMAKIAN OF KING RAMA-I, WHICH ORIGINATES FROM THE INDIAN EPIC, THE RAMAYANA. ON THE BASIS OF C.M.BOWRA'S HEROIC POETRY, WE ASSIGNED BOTH THE ILLIAD AND THE RAMAKIAN TO THE SAME FORM OF LITERATURE THE "HEROIC POETRY". IN THIS BOOK, C.M.BOWRA HAS WORKED OUT THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HEROIC POETRY OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES IN EUROPE AND ASIA. HOWEVER, HE EXCLUDED THE INDIAN EPICS AS WELLAS THE EPICS OF SOME OTHER COUNTRIES AS NOT STRICTLY CONFORMING TO HIS DEFINITION OF THE WORD "HEROIC". THEN WE EXTENDED OUR RESEARCH TO THE EPIC POETRY IN GENERAL INCLUDING THE DIDACTIC EPIC AS WELL. IN ORDER TO FIND OUT THE DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE TWO EPICS (THE ILIAD AND THE RAMAKIAN) WESTUDIED THEM ALONG WITH THE CIVILIZATION AND THE NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COUNTRIES TO WHICH THESE EPICS BELONG. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED)