The Shahnama of Firdausi: Volume I [Paperback]

This is Volume IV of a collection of thirteen on Persia. Originally published in 1905, this text looks at the first part of the SH?HN?MA OF FIRDAUS?. To the vast majority of English readers the Sh?hn?ma seems hardly to be known even by name even though it is a great Persian Epic.INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I: LAND AND PEOPLE; CHAPTER II: POET AND POEM; CHAPTER III: TEXT AND TRANSLATION; LIST OF PREVIOUS TRANSLATORS; ANCIENT PERSIAN CALENDAR; GENEALOGICAL TABLES; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION; THE SH?HN?MA; THEPRELUDE; THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY: THE PISHD?DIAN DYNASTY: GAI?MART; H?SHANG; TAHM?RAS; JAMSH?D; ZAHH?K; FAR?D?N ; FAR?D?N (continued); MIN?CHIHR; MIN?CHIHR (continued); NAUDAU; ZAVArthur George Warner, Edmond WarnerUS? 1905 Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner