Half-human and Monstrous Races in Zoroastrian Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4946241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Domenico Agostini (0000-0001-7538-5716, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | American Oriental Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7817/jameroriesoci.139.4.0805 |
| OpenAlex | W2995068330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Legends and stories about fabulous races that dwelt in India or in Africa circulated in Iran probably since the Achaemenid times. Unfortunately, scholarship on this topic has neglected some late Iranian and, especially, Zoroastrian sources, such as Draxt ī āsūrīg (The Assyrian tree), the Bundahišn (Primal Creation), the Ayādgār ī Jāmāspīg (The memorial of Jāmāsp), and the New Persian epic Šāhnāme. This article examines the aforementioned sources and discusses their accounts of five fabulous races from an Iranian, and especially Zoroastrian, perspective and through a comparative approach to some similar neighboring traditions
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · EPIC · Genealogy · Islam · Literature · Persian · Political science · Scholarship · Theology · Zoroastrianism · Ancient Near East History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |