Bernard Sergent
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Bernard Sergent is a French ancient historian and comparative mythologist. He is researcher of the CNRS and president of the Société de mythologie française.
Sergent in 2014
Georges Dumézil
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Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology.
Bernard Sergent
…certain archaeological cultures in Southern Russian Steppes or Deshti Kipchak, and he reconstructs an Indo-European religion (relying on the method of Georges Dumézil). In the monograph, Les trois fonctions indo-européennes en Grèce ancienne, vol. 1: De Mycènes aux Tragique, Sergent examines the employment of the…
Georges Dumézil
Scythian comb from Solokha. Dumézil was greatly interested in Scythian and Ossetian mythology, and its relationship with wider Indo-European mythology.
Depiction of ancient rituals on a Nordic Bronze Age stone slab from The King's Grave in southern Sweden. In his trifunctional hypothesis, Dumézil suggested that Proto-Indo-European society was characterized by an ideology in which the Proto-Indo-Europeans and their deities were hierarchically divided into classes of priests, warriors and producers.
Marble statue of the Roman sky god Jupiter. During World War II, Dumézil conducted pioneering studies on Roman mythology.