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M. Rahim Shayegan, Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. The Sources
2. On the Historical Personae Bardiya and Gaumāta
3. The Concept and Reality of the Substitute Kingin Mesopotamia and Iran
4. The Evil Brothers in the Iranian Tradition
5. Oral-Formulaic Theory and Iranian Royal Inscriptions
6. Royal Usurpations in Iranian Literary Traditions I: The Inscription of Narseh at Paikuli
7. Royal Usurpations in Iranian Literary Traditions II: The Evidence of the Šāhnāme
8. Preliminary Conclusions
Appendix I. Formulaic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions
Appendix II. Thematic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions
Bibliography
Abbreviations
DB = Inscriptions of Darius at Bisotun
FGH = Fragmente der griechischen Historiker
NPi = Inscription of Narseh at Paikuli
LABS = Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars, ed. Parpola
Š-KhM = Šāhnāme, ed. Khaleghi-Motlagh