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Book Review: Zinner on Regiomontanus: Regiomontanus: His Life and Work

I. Georges Dumezil, Le Festin d'immortalite: Etude de mythologie comparee indo-europeenne (Paris, 1924). In quoting the myth from the passages in the Epic, Worthen makes use of the old translation by P. C. Roy (Calcutta, 1883-96), evidently unaware of the modern version, The Mahiibhiirata I: The Book of the Beginning, translated and edited by J. A. B. van Buitenen, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1973). The story of Astika is found on pp. 63-123. In his list of references, Worthen has also conflated titles of two of Dumezil's works, The destiny ofa warrior (1970) and The destiny ofa king (1973), as The destiny ofthe warrior king (1970). 2. His etymological discussion would carry more weight if he realized that when Lommel writes "die weibliche Ersten (purviyoni)" the word purviyoni is not a 'compound word' in the Persian text, but only Lommel's gloss, by way of an artificial Sanskrit equivalent to the Avestan paoiryaeinyas: H. Lommel, Die Ydst's des Awesta (Gottingen, 1927). 3. David Ulansey, The origins ofthe Mithraic mysteries (Oxford, 1989); S. B. Roy, Prehistoric lunar astronomy (New Delhi, 1976). 4. The late Willy Hartner wrote a very remarkable paper (not referred to here) which in a sense covers the same territory; "The earliest history of the constellations in the Near East and the motif of the lion-bull combat", Journal of Near Eastern studies, xxiv (1965), 1-16, reprinted in Willy Hartner Oriens-Occidens (Hildesheim, 1968). Here he considered, for example, the marking of the beginning of spring c. 4000 B.C. by the heliacal rising of the Pleiades, a view supported by a precise astronomical analysis and a survey of numerous ancient artifacts. While much is speculation, Hartner carries conviction by the obvious competence of his discussion, and by persuading the reader that at least there is something that demands an explanation, qualities that are lacking in Worthen's study.