The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam The tyrannical monster Zahhak upon whose shoulder grew serpents that feasted daily on the brains of Iran s youth the giant hero Rostam who vanquished entire armies with his immense strength and milita
The tyrannical monster Zahhak upon whose shoulder grew serpents that feasted daily on the brains of Iran s youth the giant hero Rostam who vanquished entire armies with his immense strength and military prowess the inept Shah Kay Kavus whose greed and vanity brought incessant warfare and misery to the land he ruled the bold princess Rudabe who defied two armies to pledgThe tyrannical monster Zahhak upon whose shoulder grew serpents that feasted daily on the brains of Iran s youth the giant hero Rostam who vanquished entire armies with his immense strength and military prowess the inept Shah Kay Kavus whose greed and vanity brought incessant warfare and misery to the land he ruled the bold princess Rudabe who defied two armies to pledge her love to the Iranian hero Zal these are but a few of the charters who inhabit the world of the great Persian classic known as the Shahname, or Book of Kings Completed in the eleventh century A.D by the poet Abol Qasem Ferdowsi, the Shahname describes in than 80,000 lines of verse the pre Islamic history of Persia from mythological times down to the invasion of the armies of Islam in the mid seventh century A.D.From this long saga, Jerome Clinton has translated into English blank verse the most famous episode, the story of Rostam and Sohrab It is a stark and classic tragedy set against the exotic backdrop of a mythological Persia where feasting, hunting, and warring are accomplished on the most magnificent scale Matching the English translation line by line on the facing pages is the Persian text of the poem, based on the earliest complete manuscript of the Shahname, which is preserved in the British Museum.This lyrical translation of the tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam captures the narrative power and driving rhythm of the Shahname as no other English translation has His rendering into modern blank verse is both faithful to the original and pleasing to the ear of the contemporary reader.
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Abolqasem Ferdowsi Persian , the son of a wealthy land owner, was born in 935 in a small village named Paj near Tus in Khorasan which is situated in today s Razavi Khorasan province in Iran.He devoted than 35 years to his great epic, the Sh hn meh It was originally composed for presentation to the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Iranian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century Ferdowsi started his composition of the Shahnameh in the Samanid era in 977 A.D During Ferdowsi s lifetime the Samanid dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavid Empire After 30 years of hard work, he finished the book and two or three years after that, Ferdowsi went to Ghazni, the Ghaznavid capital, to present it to the king, Sultan Mahmud.Ferdowsi is said to have died around 1020 in poverty at the age of 85, embittered by royal neglect, though fully confident of his work s ultimate success and fame, as he says in the verse I suffered during these thirty years, but I have revived the Iranians Ajam with the Persian language I shall not die since I am alive again, as I have spread the seeds of this language