Archaeologists tend to interpret the cremation of Patroklos in particular and of Homeric heroes in general as inspired by practices that went into effect only in the first millennium B.C., when cremation and inhumation are found to exist side by side in this respect, then, Homeric poetry is supposed to reflect a near-contemporary state of affairs, as opposed to a more archaic heritage dating back to the Mycenaean era of the second millennium B.C., a period when cremation is sporadic and inhumation is the norm. If indeed the Funeral of Patroklos reflects an ideology so early as to be of Indo-European heritage, then a basic criterion for the dating of narrative traditions in the Homeric poems has to be revised. The parallelisms in details and in ideology suggest a common Indo-European heritage, in view of additional comparative evidence available from the Indic traditions. The rituals occasioned by the Funeral of Patroklos, as narrated in Iliad XXIII, have been compared with the royal funerary rituals of the Hittites. ![]() Unattainable Wishes: The Restricted Range of an Idiom in Epic Diction, pp. Mythical Foundations of Greek Society and the Concept of the City-State, pp. Poetry and the Ideology of the Polis, pp. Part III: The Hellenization of Indo-European Social Ideolog圜hapter 11. Phaethon, Sappho’s Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: “Reading” the Symbols of Greek Lyric, pp. Sêma and Nóēsis: The Hero’s Tomb and the “Reading” of Symbols in Homer and Hesiod, pp. The King and the Hearth: Six Studies of Sacral Vocabulary Relating to the Fireplace, pp. The Death of Sarpedon and the Question of Homeric Uniqueness, pp. Patroklos, Concepts of Afterlife, and the Indic Triple Fire, pp. Part II: The Hellenization of Indo-European Myth and RitualChapter 4. Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism, pp. ![]() Formula and Meter: The Oral Poetics of Homer, pp. Part I: The Hellenization of Indo-European PoeticsChapter 1.
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