Who were the Indo-Europeans, where did they come from, and how did their culture shape civilizations from India to Ireland? Leading French Indo-Europeanist Jean Audry, drawing on decades of comparative research into language, myth, and society, offers a fundamental scholarly analysis of this issue. The monograph *The Indo-Europeans* is a comprehensive reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European community—from its worldview, social structure, religion, and cosmology to its poetic tradition—based on linguistic paleontology and comparative mythology, particularly Dumézil’s trifunctional theory. The author systematically examines the mental and linguistic categories of the Indo-Europeans, their concept of glory and aristocratic ethics, social stratification from the family to the linguistic-cultural continuum, as well as their conceptions of time, the cosmos, and eschatology.
The book is intended for linguists, researchers of comparative mythology, and anyone interested in the origins of European civilization.
Author: Jean Audrey
Translation: Andriy Potsiluyko, Bohdan Hoysa, Oleksandr Antychny
Scientific editor: Viktoria Parfyonova
Language: Ukrainian
Year of publication: 2026
Number of pages: 174
Binding: Hardcover