Indo-European Poetry and Myth

Indo-European Poetry and Myth
AuthorMartin L. West
LanguageEnglish
SubjectIndo-European studies
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
2007
Pages525

Indo-European Poetry and Myth is a 2007 non-fiction book on comparative Proto-Indo-European mythology by the British philologist and classicist Martin Litchfield West.

Published by Oxford University Press, the book is a work of comparative religion focused on Indo-European literature and religion. Rather than relying solely on linguistic reconstruction, West also examines shared concepts and mythological motifs across the various Indo-European traditions. Like Indogermanische Religion (2025) by Norbert Oettinger and Peter Jackson Rova, it builds on a comparative method of reconstruction previously established by Calvert Watkins in How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (1995).

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