From: João S. Lopes Filho
Message: 7138
Date: 2001-04-18
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:46 AM
Subject: [tied] Paris/Alexandros
> The latest copy of JIES came today. Hooray! I'll be posting out of
> this for a while.
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> The first item of interest is from the article "Antenor and
> Vibhishana" by Marcel A.J. Meulder.
>
> He compares the characters of Antenor, a brother or cousin of Priam of
> Troy with a certain Vibhishana, a minor character from the Ramayana.
> The are both relatives of a king or kings at war, and can be seen as
> peacemakers, ambassadors. Antenor means 'opposed to the man', or
> alternately, 'instead of the man', 'the one who goes instead, in the
> stead of'.
>
> Meulder gives an etymology for Alexandros (=Paris), not the usual 'to
> shield, to guard against [for] men', 'defender of men'.
>
> He writes (p. 404]
>
> --start quote--
> ...the etymology of the Trojan noun Aleks-(andros) would be the same
> as this of the hero *Rakshasa; both nouns would derive from the
> Indo-European root *H2letk- meaning 'to make an attempt' ...[vs]
> *H2lek(s) 'to shield, to guard against'.
> --end quote
>
> He cites C. Rose "Autor du mytho-cycle heroique indo-europeen"
> _Ollodagos_ 11.239-272.
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> So. Trojan 'Alexandros' is actually a lost pun, 'to make an attempt
> against men?' I'm not actually sure what all of this is supposed to
> prove and don't completely understand the reference to "*Rakshasa",
> which seems to be a dynastic title or the name of a country, and
> certainly, not a hero.
>
> The idea seems to be that Paris makes attempts against peace, while
> Antenor opposes him and that both stories share a degree of common
> descent, even at the etymological level.
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