Rostam: Tales of Love & War from Persia's Book of Kings - Hardcover

Ferdowsi, Abolqasem

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933823119 ISBN 13: 9781933823119

Publisher: Mage Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Rostam is Iran's greatest mythological hero, a Persian Hercules, magnificent in strength and courage. This book begins with the birth of Rostam's father and ends with Rostam's death. The tales tell of the love between Zal and Rostam's mother, the Kaboli princess Rudabeh; of Rostam's miraculous birth, aided by the magical bird Simorgh; and more.

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About the Author:

ABOLQASEM FERDOWSI was born in Khorasan in a village near Tus, in 940. There are various stories in medieval texts describing the lack of interest shown by the ruler of Khorasan, Mahmud of Ghazni, in Ferdowsi's great epic the Shahnameh, to which he had devoted most of his adult life. Ferdowsi is said to have died around 1020 in poverty and embittered by royal neglect, though confident of his and his poem's ultimate fame.

Dick DAVIS lived for eight years in Iran (1970-78), as well as for periods in Greece and Italy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor of Persian at Ohio State University, and now considered the greatest translator of Persian poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mage Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933823119
• ISBN 13: 9781933823119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1