Echoes in Ancient Texts: India and Ancient Greece

About this episode

Anya and Roberto Morales explore the similarities between ancient Greek, Roman, and Indian literature, discussing the cultural parallels and their significance.

How is Odysseus like the heroes of Indian literature? And how did two cultures, separated by vast time and distances, come to have such remarkably similar stories? Today Anya is joined by Roberto Morales to discuss the parallels between ancient Greek, Roman, and Indian literature. They discuss what caused these parallels, and what we can learn from them today... Roberto Morales is Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Costa R...

People in this episode

Host: Anya

Guest: Roberto Morales

Topics covered

• ancient literature
• cultural parallels
• Greek literature
• Indian literature
• Odysseus
• storytelling

Keywords

• Odysseus
• Indian literature
• Greek literature
• cultural parallels
• ancient texts
• storytelling
• Roberto Morales

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Costa R

Books & works: Odysseus, Indian literature, Greek literature, Roman literature

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