The Shahnama of Firdausi

This is Volume IV of a collection of thirteen on Persia. Originally published in 1905, this text looks at the first part of the SHÁHNÁMA OF FIRDAUSÍ. To the vast majority of English readers the Sháhnáma 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 SHÁHNÁMA; THEPRELUDE; THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY: THE PISHDÁDIAN DYNASTY: GAIÚMART; HÚSHANG; TAHMÚRAS; JAMSHÍD; ZAHHÁK; FARÍDÚN ; FARÍDÚN (continued); MINÚCHIHR; MINÚCHIHR (continued); NAUDAU; ZAV