this paper aims to explore the relationship between epic poetry and national self-consciousness and in particular study how shahnameh may be analyzed from this angle. what is the relationship between the shahnameh and the iranian national self-consciousness? what can one say about the iranian national self-consciousness on the basis of this text? what does the text reveal about the iranian iden...

ferdowsi, has beautifully described the important characters of shahnameh. with the help of psychological analysis, one can reach the hidden layers of their personality. this shows ferdowsi’s intelligence and his awareness in characterization. one of the negative and unaccepted characters of shahnameh is called shaghaad, who is rostam’s stepbrother. in his exact description of this character, f...

1. introduction one of the features of oral poetry in aryan-indo-european tribes is the usage of epithets in their epic and religious works. after conducting research in oral poetry in yugoslavia and comparing results with literary features of iliad and odyssey, researchers concluded that these epithets along with the name of characters are based on formulas. homer had learned these formulas fr...

marriage and mate selection is one of the most important events in the social life which has been observed in various forms in different eras and societies. to achieve this, using qualitative content analysis, all marriages mentioned in the shahnameh were analyzed. the results show that the kings and heroes as the class of iranian society in the shahnameh, for finding a matching partner, person...

One of the most important aspects struggle warriors and in epic works is arrogance that called by comrades before start hand-to-hand battle. It accompanied pride ancestry, race, ridicule. Ferdowsi's Shahnameh full unique has given its poet a special place with various skills, so these styles have been welcomed imitated poets after Ferdowsi. In meantime, Bahmannameh written Iranshah Ibn Abi Al-K...

reasearches about ‘marriage’ in iranian epic literature has always been limited to shahnameh. in most of these researches, some rare but important motifs have been ignored and not been argued at all. in addition to shahnameh, the writer of this article has studied heroic poems and some prose texts. he has chosen eight samples of the marriage custom in these texts and has analyzed them.