Epic Iran

Abstract This book examines the reception of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid), and Claudian ...

This open access monograph sheds new light on the epic by focusing on its importance as a vector for ideas about Africa and Africans between the 14th and 20th centuries.In Italy an...

Epic was a prestigious but also malleable and enduring ancient literary form. ‘Epic’ shows that in societies where warfare was endemic, a genre which both celebrated and explored s...

Abstract This book explores motifs of cosmology and meteorology in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica, demonstrating how Valerius draws eclectically on philosophical ...

Lucretius’ philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the universe and, in particular, the world of nature and ...

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Ira...

Iran underwent major economic changes in the twentieth century, but these have to date largely been studied in the context of oil, centralization and revolutions.This book examines...

How Iran—and the world around it—have changed in the four decades since a revolutionary theocracy took powerIran's 1979 revolution is one of the most important events of the late t...