One of the most memorable images by Greek historian Herodotus depicts Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be punished ...

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Emissaries from the governments headed by Calvin Coolidge, George V, Gaston Doumergue, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg and many another, sought last week the capital of Persia, Teheran, a city ...

The Achaemenid kings of Persia ruled between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., but much of what we know about them today comes from Greek rather than Persian sources. The various Greek authors who ...

The "Shahnama" is a terrifying book. Not because it is long, though with 50,000 verses, it is long indeed. Nor because it is dry or taxing on the reader. As translator Dick Davis demonstrated in his ...

In Western history, Persians are exotic and malevolent “Others.” The fantasy film 300 (2006) is an extreme example. For many modern Americans, Persians are the Bad Guys. The first great Persian empire ...

The New Victory Theater will present Iranian-American artist Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North, highlighting the beauty of Persian culture, from March 15-23. Based on a story from the epic poem the ...