Book Talk: Lament for Siavash by Shahrokh Meskoob
Dr. Mahasti Afshar presents her recent translation of "Lament for Siavash" (Mage Publishers, 2024), the English translation of "Sūg-e Siavash" by Shahrokh Meskoob, originally published in Persian in 1971. The book is an exegesis of the story of the death of Siavash and his resurrection as Kay Khosrow in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, and its variant treatment across Iranian mythology, epic, religious, and mystical traditions.
This event was organized on April 25, 2024.
Born in Tehran, Mahasti Afshar (Ziai) earned a Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indo-European folklore and mythology at Harvard in 1988; her dissertation was titled “The Immortal Hound: Genesis and Transformation of a Symbol in Indo-Iranian Traditions.” In 1989, she joined the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles where she produced video documentaries, books, and museum exhibitions around the world on humanity’s cultural heritage.
To learn more about Dr. Afshar's book, visit: magepublishers.com/lament-for...
Part of the Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts: iranian-studies.stanford.edu/...
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Eloquent presentation of a salient scholar . My regards and heart felt compliments 🌼🌼🌼
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This lady has a strong resemblance to Ashraf Pahlavi.
@rostamr4096
9 күн бұрын
Yes, she does.
@hameed44
3 сағат бұрын
maybe slightly. She's much better looking than Ashraf was.
Unknown to western people the Persian poetry is semantically, stylistically and formalistically superior to Greek and Latin literary classics including Homer, Virgil and Ovid.
@hameed44
3 сағат бұрын
To do a comparative study the entire body of work in the three languages of Parsi, Greek, and Latin to reach your conclusion is a formidable undertaking. Please provide references to any such work you may know of. Lest you're just stating your opinion.
@kevinwellwrought2024
58 минут бұрын
@@hameed44 It is in fact an easy undertaking. We can simply and just do a compatative study between Shabastari’s The Secret Rose Garden and the poetry of Horace (Latin poet) for example. Persian poets are much more advanced and sophisticated in the invention and application of rhyme and meter and also the use of figurative language (symbol, metaphor, irony etc) and their works are much more profound and richer semantically!
Who are those idiots with their cellphone on?
What I like is that there are no Jews in this story.
Great questions by the Stanford Alumni. They have big egos but stupid questions you can wikipedia and find out pretty quickly how stupid they are.