Abstract
Ferdowsi is one of the greatest poets of Iran whose great work named Shahnameh, is a national epic which is equal to world epics such as Iliados and Odyssee which are Homerus’ work. But its difference with epics of other nations is variety of this book. The book in which adventures of kings and champions has been expressed in mythical, heroic and historical stories. One of its stories is story of Siavash and Soodabeh which its story is very similar to a story from Euripide, Greek tragedy writer: story of Hyppolite and Phedre. This story has also been written by Racine, French poet and tragedy writer and both has created an independent story because subject of story itself has been considerable for them but Ferdowsi has considered to this story as one of Shahnameh adventures which is an introduction to important events. Both stories are about a forbidden and sinful love.In this essay, similarity and difference between story of Siavash and Soodabeh and story of Hyppolite and Phedre is studied. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p26
Highlights
In this article two stories in the form of Adaptive Art knowledge are focused to step forward to discover the similarities between Shahnameh by Ferdowsi as Iran nation Historical and heroic epopee and Greek tragedy
By taking look at selected works, we can mention following points: Beauty and warlike features are the main features of storiesprotagonists which are mentioned many times in Ferdowsis story and these features are the necessities of making such situation to be believable
None of these features are mentioned about Hyppolite because Aphrodite places The charm of this sinful love in Pheders heart and she had not chosen such love on her own so Hyppolites beauty isn’t as an factor to tempt Pheder and this love is a talisman which is imposed by Gods
Summary
In this article two stories in the form of Adaptive Art knowledge are focused to step forward to discover the similarities between Shahnameh by Ferdowsi as Iran nation Historical and heroic epopee and Greek tragedy. In Hippolite the prologue which is saying by Aphrodit at the beginning of the story, gives us sufficient information about the work but we can’t see that in the story of Siavash Racine in his drama with the name of phedre which was written in 1677 AD, has done a complete rewrite of Hippolite but instead of emphasizing on Hippolites good innate and calm characteristic focuses on Pheders Passionate and jealous characteristic. He forms ancient Greek playwrights Triangle with (Aeschylus) and (Sophocles).the exact time of his birth is not clear and supposes to be born in 480 AD As a child, he learnt painting and music and started to learn philosophy under the supervision of his era Masters and started to write as he was 25 and he wrote 92 dramas along 50 years of writing but just 19 of them are available now. He is kind of author who proved his ingenuity in simple language form Beauty and purity point of view
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