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Mazuranic, Ivan:

Smrt Smail-Age Cuengica (The Death of Smail-Aga Cuengic ) 71 , 79 , 81

Machaon, 289 -90 n. 29

madih (song of praise to Prophet), 159 , 161 , 162

Maeon (in Statius), 227

magic, 90 , 194 -95, 254 -55

magical etymology, 37 -38

Mahabharata,169 -86;

cult of villains, Kauravas, 175 -82;

as epic tradition, 169 , 174 -75;

in Garhwal, 171 -75;

good and evil as theme, 171 ;

as "history," 173 ;

and martial ethos, 170 -71, 173 , 174 , 175 , 179 ;

origin stories, 172 ;

Pandvani tradition, 133 , 140 ;

places associated with, 171 -72;

summary, 169 -71

makarismos, 233 n. 24

Malbecco, 96 -97, 259

Mande hunter songs, 160

Manjari, 134

marginalization of epic poet, 8 , 9 , 13 , 55 , 59 -60

markedness/unmarkedness of speech acts, 25 -26

marriage customs, Indian, 144 , 175 , 176

martial ethos in Indian epic, 135 -37, 170 -71, 174 , 175

Martin, Richard, 13 , 22 , 162 , 209

Marxism, 6

Mary, Virgin, 123 , 233 n. 14

mawwal (Arabic lyric genre), 59 -60, 161 , 162

media. See broadcasting; cinema; radio; television

Meleager, 209

memory, 4

Menoeceus, 103 n. 37, 229 -30

menopause, 76 -77

Mercury, 98 , 99

metamorphosis, 89 -107;

and allegory, 92 , 98 , 267 n. 34;

and anthropologies, 91 -95;

and Christianity, 123 , 259 , 267 n. 34;

and fama, 97 -100;

and fixity, 91 , 99 -100, 264 -65 n. 13;

language of, 90 ;

in Latin epic, 90 , 91 -95;

by magic, 90 ;

Odysseus', 93 , 100 ;

in origin tales, 243 -44, 244 -45;

part-to-part analogy, 245 , 266 n. 23;

and personification, 95 -97;

Protean, shifting,

reversible, 89 -90, 97 -100, 259 ;

terminal, irreversible 89 , 91 , 99 -100, 243 -44, 244 -45, 259

metaphor, 10 , 90

Michikimau, Lake, 266 n. 24

Millman, Lawrence, 242

Milton, John:

Paradise Lost,4 , 9 , 45 , 109 , 200 -1;

Satan 283 , 284 , 287

Miracoli della Vergine, Libro dei Cinquanti,123

Miseno, Punta di, 242

miseratio (forensic genre), 222

Moldavia, 80

monologic nature of epic, 7 , 273 , 284

Montenegro, 71 , 72

monumentalism of epic, 203

Morpheus, 96

mothers: curses, 72 , 77 -78;

figure in Balkan epic, 72 , 77 , 81 ;

laments, 224 -25, 229 -30

(see also Hecuba);

murderous, 211

mourners, professional, 225

Muhammad, song of praise to (madih ) 159 , 161 , 162

multiculturalism, 15 -16, 237 -96

Murnaghan, Sheila, 11 , 12 , 15 , 203 -20

music, 138 , 158 -59, 161 , 162

muthos (authoritative speech act), 25 -26, 209 -10, 212

Myrrha, 242 , 250 , 251 , 259