Sohrab

15 09, 2017

Sohrab and Rustem – Iran – West Asian stories

By |2019-09-04T07:31:52-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Sohrab and Rustem – Iran – West Asian stories

Sohrab and Rustem: The death of Sohrab (Iranian painting) Where did this story come from? This story is probably an old Indo-European story that Persian people told even before they moved south into Iran [...]

25 07, 2017

Medieval Islamic historians

By |2018-04-09T10:31:10-07:00July 25th, 2017|History, Islam, Literature|Comments Off on Medieval Islamic historians

A page from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, from Herat, Afghanistan, about 1444 AD. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Islamic historians began by translating Greek historians like Herodotus and Thucydides into Arabic. But soon historians wrote in [...]

16 07, 2017

Penthesileia and Achilles – Greek mythology

By |2018-04-23T10:11:12-07:00July 16th, 2017|Greeks, Literature|Comments Off on Penthesileia and Achilles – Greek mythology

Achilles and Penthesileia, on an Athenian vase painted by Exekias Penthesileia (pen-tha-sill-AY-ah) was the Queen of the Amazons, in Greek mythology. The Amazons were a group of warriors who were all [...]

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