Mahmoud JafariDehhaghi; Lila Varahram
Abstract
As bothepic and history express some stories of the past, their existing similaritiesand dissimilarities and their relation have attracted the attention of scholars.These two kinds ...
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As bothepic and history express some stories of the past, their existing similaritiesand dissimilarities and their relation have attracted the attention of scholars.These two kinds of stories have been so similar that previous experts could notdistinguish the historical events from epics. In Shāhnāme, as an excellent samplewhich Iranians consider as their pre-Islamic history until the last Qajar, theline between historical events and epic cannot be drawn. Finding the roots ofmany of Iranian national epic stories in Avesta and observing theircontradictions to the works of foreign authors, inscriptions and archaeologicalfindings, aroused many serious questions about the existing relation betweenepic and history in the field of Iranian studies. This essay is generallystudying the relationship between epic-history and its ratio to Iraniannational epic specifically.