Legendary Patterns in Late Antique Biography: The Parallel Lives of Ardashir I and Constantine the Great

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52376-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Iran Studies

A Memorial in the World offers a new appraisal of the reception and role of Constantine the Great and Ardashir I (the founder of the Sasanian Empire c.224-651), in their respective cultural spheres. Concentrating on marked parallels in the legendary material attached to both men it argues that the memories of both were reshaped by processes referencing the same deep literary heritage.

What is more, as “founders” of imperial systems that identified with a particular religious community, the literature that developed around these late antique figures applied these ancient tropes in a startlingly parallel direction. This parallel offers a new angle on the Karnamag tradition, an originally Middle Persian biographical tradition of Ardashir I.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Farrell, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew O’Farrell, Ph.D (2018), Universiteit Ghent, is currently an ARC post-doctoral research fellow at Macquarie University.