Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 3
Among the masterpieces of world literature, perhaps the least familiar to English readers is the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh, in Persian). This prodigious national epic, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between 980 and 1010, tells the story of ancient Persia, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab-Islamic invasion. With our third and final volume of stories from the Shahnameh we move from mythology and legend to romanticized history. Here the mighty events that shook ancient Persia from the time of Alexander of Macedon's conquest to the Arab invasion of the seventh century C.E. are reflected in the stirr…
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Weitere Autoren: Ferdowsi, Abolqasem / Davis, Dick (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-934211-68-0
- EAN: 9780934211680
- Produktnummer: 9982720
- Verlag: Mage Publ Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 549 S.
- Masse: H28.6 cm x B19.4 cm x D4.2 cm 1'991 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 3
- Gewicht: 1991
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