Sven Sellmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5890713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sven Sellmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sven |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellmer |
| SIGNATURE | SELLMER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6688-0667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part II
The article offers a contribution to the psychology and mental language of the Homeric epics. We collect, classify, and examine Homeric expressions describing positively evaluated transformations or states of the mind. For comparative purposes, we conduct an analogous analysis of the Sanskrit epics Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa. On this basis, we discuss the ways of conceptualizing the mind found in the collected material and identify specific feature…
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part I
This article analyzes Homeric expressions attributing negative changes or states to the so-called “mental organs” (θυμός, φρένες, etc.), and compares them, by means of a transparent classification, with analogous Sanskrit expressions found in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, the second oldest extant representatives of epic poetry in an Indo-European language. Applying the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, we propose to treat the collected exp…
Obsolete Weapons in the Mahabharata
The paper deals with four weapons that appear in the Mahabharata, but are never, or only exceptionally, employed in real combat: plough (hala), wheel/disc (cakra), thunderbolt (vajra) and trident (trisula). In each case, an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of the weapon is made, the textual and material evidence is examined, and a hypothesis is presented as to how the weapon was imagined by the authors and recipients of the epic
Notes on Some Difficult Passages of the Haṭhapradīpikā
The Mind as Container
One of the most widespread and natural ways of conceiving of the human mind in European culture is the image of the mind as a container for thoughts, images, memories, reasonings, etc. In this article, we explore the evidence of this metaphor in the Ancient Greek epic poems, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey as well as Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days , and, for comparative purposes, the evidence of the analogous metaphor in the Ancient Indian epics,…
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Notes on Some Difficult Passages of the Haṭhapradīpikā
The Mind as Container
One of the most widespread and natural ways of conceiving of the human mind in European culture is the image of the mind as a container for thoughts, images, memories, reasonings, etc. In this article, we explore the evidence of this metaphor in the Ancient Greek epic poems, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey as well as Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days , and, for comparative purposes, the evidence of the analogous metaphor in the Ancient Indian epics,…
Obsolete Weapons in the Mahabharata
The paper deals with four weapons that appear in the Mahabharata, but are never, or only exceptionally, employed in real combat: plough (hala), wheel/disc (cakra), thunderbolt (vajra) and trident (trisula). In each case, an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of the weapon is made, the textual and material evidence is examined, and a hypothesis is presented as to how the weapon was imagined by the authors and recipients of the epic
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part I
This article analyzes Homeric expressions attributing negative changes or states to the so-called “mental organs” (θυμός, φρένες, etc.), and compares them, by means of a transparent classification, with analogous Sanskrit expressions found in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, the second oldest extant representatives of epic poetry in an Indo-European language. Applying the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, we propose to treat the collected exp…
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part II
The article offers a contribution to the psychology and mental language of the Homeric epics. We collect, classify, and examine Homeric expressions describing positively evaluated transformations or states of the mind. For comparative purposes, we conduct an analogous analysis of the Sanskrit epics Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa. On this basis, we discuss the ways of conceptualizing the mind found in the collected material and identify specific feature…
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