Numerous ancient sources attest that Artemisia of Halicarnassus, a fifth-century bce tyrant whose polis came under Persian rule in 524 bce, figures prominently Xerxes' naval campaign against Greece. At least since Pompeius Trogus' first-century Philippic History, interpretations have juxtaposed her "virile courage" (uirilem audaciam) with "womanish fear" (muliebrem timorem) primarily as means b...

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sleep and dream in hafez' divan   m. komeili* vali asr university of rafsenjan abstract sleep and dream are two prominent features which are frequently mentioned in divan, so they are worth studying here. hafez, in two hemistichs, artistically and concisely refers to the similarity of death and sleep which is reminiscent of one of the holy prophet's (pbuh) hadiths. hafez allots the be...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...

The main aim of this paper is to present a different point view for some the winged figures on Clazomenian Sarcophagi. increasing research and publications relations between Persian Hellenic cultures allow scholars re-examine specific features artefacts. Also, even though there are several successful PhD thesis Sarcophagi, lack as well. interaction can be most clearly observed religious funerar...