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Open Access · 2024

2024 Vol.2 No.2


Classical Literature

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3 articles
ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 28 May 2025

The Feminine Form in Saundarya Lahari: A Devotional Perspective

Greeshma Sharma

Classical Literature · 1–11 · 10.55121/cl.v2i2.287

This study presents a close philological and interpretive analysis of the Saundarya Lahari, a canonical Sanskrit hymn attributed to Ādi Śaṅkarācārya and central to the Śākta tradition. Comprising 100 ślokas, the text uniquely fuses devotional poetry with metaphysical doctrine, portraying Goddess Lalitā Tripurasundarī as the embo

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 27 July 2024

Literature as a Pathway Toward Our Spirituality: Hartmann von Aue, Marie de France, and Heinrich Kaufringer

Albrecht Classen

Classical Literature · 12–25 · 10.55121/cl.v2i2.638

This paper critically examines several short verse narratives from the late twelfth and early fifteenth centuries in which the authors offered profound insights into the human quest for spirituality, identity, and meaning, and which continue to talk to us until today because they shed so much light on this fundamental quest in h

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 29 August 2024

The Illusion of Heroism in the Odyssey: Homer’s Proto-Realist and Ethical Inquiry

Katica Kulavkova

Classical Literature · 26–44 · 10.55121/cl.v2i2.1237

This interdisciplinary reading of Book 22 of Homer’s Odyssey combines classical studies, ethics, narratology, and psychoanalytic theory to show a shift from epic heroism to a post-epic “counter-heroism,” positioning the text as a precursor to literary proto-realism. This shift highlights a chronotope of excessive violence and “n

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