The Story-Book of the Shah: Or Legends of Old Persia (Classic Reprint)

Persians of to-day, as were the Siege of Troy or the adventures of Odysseus to the Athenians in the time of Pericles. Some eight centuries have now passed since the poet Firdausi, the Oriental Homer, collected these ancient tales of Kings and Heroes, and embodied them in a fine epic poem, the Shah Nameh, which has been called the Iliad of theE
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