Lascivious Vines, Corrupted Virgins, and Crimes of Honor
Variations on the Wine Production Myth as Narrated in Early Persian Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9979593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (Czech Academy of Sciences, Oriental Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-129 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210862.2013.825501 |
| OpenAlex | W2059476686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The Persian wine production myth centers on the relationship between a male vintner and his female vine and her daughters, the grapes. This myth, the earliest extant examples of which are found in qasīdas by the Samanid poets Rūdakī and Bashshār Marghazī and which was much developed by Manūchihrī and his contemporary Farrukhī, contains images of femininity, the mother–child bond, separation, violence, execution, and ultimate redemption. The grape harvest comes in the late summer and culminates in the Mihragān festival, a celebration focused on the grape and grape wine, at which poems containing versions of the wine production myth were recited. The present study maps the evolution of this myth over the span of a century through a close reading of eleven poems with specific reference to variations in narrative structure
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |