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1. introduction thebeginning of the reign of kavus coincides with the battle of mazandaran. the exordium of the story is as follows: kavus and his heroes are drinking wine and celebrating his enthronement. the div (ahreman) made himself like a musician and demanded the chamberlain to let him play before the king.as soon as thechamberlain brings him to the presence of the king, he starts playing...

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azidahak (zahhak) has always been a strange myth among the other mythological characters in pre-islamic literature. is it possible to figure out a specific historical period for his life? or as avesta's image shows, we should consider him as a semi-human, semi-monster notion with three ugly heads on his shoulder? this article tries to put this figure on the spotlight and illuminate his rea...

this article reflects the mythical story of “kaveh and zahak” from ferdowsi’s shahnameh in the “rajol-e siāsi” short story, written by sayyed mohammad jamalzadeh in his “yeki bood-yeki nabood” (“once upon a time”) collection, and discusses the similarities of the two. the foundation of the “kaveh and zahak” tale is the eternal battle between “good and evil” and, as the greatest and the most pal...

in the history of persian fiction, there have been created works of art, corresponding to their time’s intellectual and cultural necessities and needs; if being read through by a reconsidering approach, they not only may refer to individual and social psychology of iranian people of the era “jamshid and khorshid” the poem (778 ah) is one of these works that has considerable potentials for empha...

studying the comparison between bahrame gour’s story in shahnameh and the ancient, historical texts in this article we studied the differences between two historical and fictional narrations of bahram e gour’s story. to obtain this aim we studied historiographer’s point of view and on the other hand the firdowsi’s narration has been represented. in order to explain the differences we defined tw...