Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Identity, independence & interdependence
A Workshop in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Monday 26 May 2014, 10 am to 5 pm Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones will talk about The rhetoric of empire in ancient Iran: ‘Better together’.
Public lecture III
3. The return of the Avesta It has been argued that the adoption of the Zoroastrian religious world view by the Sasanians was instrumental in maintaining the nobility’s loyalty to the goals of the empire. Most arguments in favour of this view, however, derive from examinations of source material dating from the early Islamic era.
The Sasanian Empire as a garden
The Sasanian Empire as a garden: The limits of Iranshahr Speaker: Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine) Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London When: 22 May 2014 Poster at the BIPS.
Public lecture II
2. The Sasanian Empire and religious authority: The case of Zoroastrianism As one of the major political and economic powers in the region, the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) elevated Zoroastrianism to the dominant religious and cultural force within its polity, bringing to the foreground the question of the interaction between religion and sovereignty in the
Xerxes’ cabinet of curiosities
Xerxes’ cabinet of curiosities: Exotic animals and royal authority in Achaemenid Iran Speaker: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh) Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London When: 18 June 2014 Poster at the BIPS.
Zoroastrian exegetical parables
A thorough examination of the structure of one of the parables in the ŠGW. Sam’s comparison with examples from the Rabbinic literature is illuminating. Thrope, Samuel. 2013. Zoroastrian exegetical parables in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār. Iran and the Caucasus 17. 253-274. Read the article here. Abstract: The parable has received little attention as a form