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sacrifice, human, 255

al-Safadi 66 n. 11

sahra (Egyptian social gathering), 158 -63

St. Lucia, Caribbean, 272 , 280 -81

saj' (Arabic rhyming prose), 160 , 161

Salmacis, 242

Samos, 45

sanskritization, 136

Sapiro, Virginia, 78 , 80

Sappho, 28

Satnami caste, 138 , 139 , 143 , 146

Saturn, cult of, 113 , 115

Sax, William S., 11 , 14 -15, 169 -86

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 279

Schmidt, Ernst, 93

school system, United States, 270 -71

Scythians, Darius and, 43

seers, women, 62 -63, 64 , 65 , 76 -77

Seneca the Younger, 221 , 222

Serbia, 71 -72

Seremetakis, Nadia, 204

Servius, 102 n. 24

sexuality:

ambiguity of poet's, 57 ;

transgressive, and origin tales, 242 , 244 , 251 , 264 n. 12

Sháhnáma,192

Shakespeare, William, 91

Shiva (Hindu god), 143

Sicily, 42

silence and acts of silencing, 6

Silvius, 114 -15

simile, 90 , 91 , 94 , 95 , 109

Singtur, India, 175 -76

Sirat Bani Hilal. See Arabic epic

Sirens, Odysseus and, 194

Skulsky, Harold, 97

Slatkin, Laura, 24 -25, 27

"slava" (Balkan family feasts), 74

Slavs, South, 5 , 23 -24, 82 n. 2, 160 , 275

Sleep, Ovid's personification of, 96

Slyomovics, Susan, 11 , 13 , 54 -68

social change, response of epic tradition to, 169

social commentary through epic, 165

Sodolow, Joseph, 95 -96

Solon of Athens, 49 n. 43, 205

Someshvara (Hindu god), 178 -82

sophists, 39 , 45

"source", Spenser's puns on, 257 -58

speech and speech acts, 22 -23;

epic as authoritative, 25 -26, 160 ;

lament transcends speech/action boundary, 23 , 205

Spenser, Edmund, 4 , 12 , 257 -60;

and allegory, 45 , 257 -58;

Arlo Hill digression,

259 -60;

ending, 242 ;

Malbecco, 96 -97, 259 ;

metamorphosis, 96 -97, 259 ;

and origins, 16 , 257 -60;

and Ovid, 257 -58;

on springs and sources, 257 -58;

on suffering and tears, 198 -99

springs, 242 , 250 , 257 -58

Statius, P. Papinius, 15 , 226 -32, 234 ;

consolationes,233 n. 18;

Epikedeia (Laments), 233 n. 18;

Thebaid, 103 n. 37, 226 -32;

on transformations, 97

Steiner, George, 272

Stephen the Great, king of Moldavia, 80

stereotyping, 79

Stesichorus, 42

Stesimbrotus, 39

Stoics, 45

subject, delayed announcement of, 281 -82, 283 -84

Suhráb, 192

Sundar Singh, of Jakhol, 179

Sundiata epic, 289 n. 21

Suraj Bai, 140

Svenbro, Jesper, 99

symbolism:

of laurel in poetry, 247 ;

Spenser's, 258