Dumézil specialized in which religious studies?
Hinduism
Islam
Proto-Indo-European religion
Christianity
Answer
Georges Dumézil was a French philologist and comparative mythologist who specialized in the study of Proto-Indo-European religion. He is best known for his theories about the tripartite structure of Indo-European mythology, which he argued was based on the social structure of the Indo-Europeans as a warrior aristocracy, a priestly class, and a commoner class.
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