The Persian

order to bring harmony between Persian poetry and contemporary social and political issues. They argued that they could not use the old vehicles for carrying the new concepts. In this regard, according to Karimi-Hakkak, “[T]he new poetry is said to differ from the old in that it no longer follows the rigid formal rules and generic divisions of the classical poetry or of the contemporary practice modeled on it,” (Recasting Persian Poetry 3). Breaking from the formal rules of poetry began in the dawn of the twentieth century by some of the poets…

The Persian Wars, fought between Greece and Persia, were one of the most significant wars fought in the Middle East/Mediterranean. Greece and Persia had similar, yet different, techniques of fighting the war, which could have been why all of the wars were dominated by Greece. Greece used a complex formation called the Phalanx, whom used cohesion and strength to dominate the Persians. While the Persians were innovative and well-led, they still did not beat the Greeks and lost the war. The Persian…

In the 5th century B.C the Persian Wars raged the Mediterranean in attempt to conquer Greece. The Greek history was a series of battles fought between the Greece and Persia from 499 BC to 479 BC. The Persians were successful at invading but never conquered Greece. The Persian Empire was the largest and most powerful empire in the world and Greece had many cities states including the two main powerful states who were Athens and Sparta. This event all started when a few Greek city states who were…

In this essay it will talk about the Persian war which had been fought between the Greeks and Persians. It will have some name of where the battles were fought, who ruled for each faction and what had happen after some of the battles. The Persians had conquered many lands to make their huge empire which stretched from Asia Minor to the border of India. Some of the Persians subjects included the Greek city-states of Ionian which was in the Asia Minor. The Ionian city-states were largely self…

Principal Decisions. The group decided to take three principle actions involving the use of military forces in the Persian Gulf. Our first decision was in response to Iran smuggling automatic rifles and hand held rocket launchers in Saudi Arabia to aid Saudi rebels. The Joint Chief of Staff recommended a higher military presence. As a result, the President ordered 120 special ops to move secretly and strategically into Dhahran to counter the influx of light arms. The next decision was in…

There is at least one important thematic instance of Persian-Islamic painting that critics cannot employ phenomenology in order to link the formal traits of it to the transcendentality of the center of Islamic art; however, the layering aspects of it has been revealed through adopting historicism standpoint. Investigations on controversial subject matters such as the representation of eroticism in Islamic art and questioning the authority of religion are the results of following historicism…

Persian flourished as a language of prestige and elitism throughout Europe and Asia for centuries, but its importance began to diminish around the eighteenth century. In 1722, the fall of the Safavid Empire occurred and under the rule of Sultan Husayn, the Persian state suffered long term economic deterioration. It wasn’t until Nadir Shah of the Afsharid dynasty took power that political unity was restored, and for the first last time Persia’s borders were extended. However soon after this…

For this assignment I wanted to learn more about Persian culture. My interviewee was born in America, but his siblings were born in Iran. His family immigrated to the US during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His mother only speaks Farsi, so he grew up speaking Farsi and learned English while in school. Regarding traditions, the main event that is most celebrated in Iran is the Nowruz, also known as the Persian New Year and first day of Spring. After conducting further research on this, I learned…

The position concerning Jewish ethnicity that Esther supports is the set of the Persian court and the multiple forms in which this book exists to address the Persian and Greek periods of Israel’s story. Ahasuerus was the King of Persia in 485-464 BCE, and while he and his friends were having a banquet he asked his queen, Vashti to appear before his guest. Because she refused the king deposed her as queen and a national search for a new queen was set out. Ester was discovered during a pageant…

Introduction The Persian Wars were a series of conflicts involving the Persian Empire and many Greek city-states spanning from c.499-449 BCE. The conflict began around 499 BCE when Greek city-states in Anatolia, client states of the Persian Empire, rose in open rebellion against the Empire. Following the Persian Empire defeating the rebellion in 493 BCE, numerous conflicts would be fought between Persia and the Greek city-states until 449 BCE. The Greeks ―utilizing superior training, tactics,…