3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet of the Elizabethan era, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.
American linguist at Harvard, one of the foremost Indo-Europeanists of the 20th century. His monumental How to Kill a Dragon reconstructed Proto-Indo-European poetic formulas — particularly the dragon-slaying formula — from comparative analysis of ancient texts.
Monumental scholarly work by Calvert Watkins (1995). Reconstructs aspects of Proto-Indo-European poetic language and formula, with sustained focus on the dragon-slaying formula as it appears across Vedic, Greek, Hittite, Celtic, Germanic, and other Indo-European traditions.