Peter Meineck is a Professor of Classics in The Modern World at New York University. He also founded Aquila Theatre and serves as the humanities program director. Meineck has held appointments at the ...

“The Scarlet Stone,” a dance-theater retelling of a tragic Persian myth about a hero father and his son, could not be performed in present day Iran. There, due to the exegeses of the state religion, ...

Filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian's forthcoming illustrated tome will bring new, vivid life to the epic tales of the ancient Persian kings. There has been a long tradition of depicting the stories of ...

First-generation Iranian American educator and author Ryan Bani Tahmaseb honors his father, an immigrant from Iran, and his ancestry in his forthcoming middle grade collection Persian Mythology: Epic ...

Previously published as Persian Mythology: Captivation Myths of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Legendary Creatures and Tales from the Caucasus: Captivating Myths and Legends from Circassia, Armenia, and ...

Introduction: -- Outline of Persian history -- Sources of the myths -- Nature of myth -- Ancient Persian Mythology: -- Picture of the universe: -- Ancient gods: -- Vayu, wind --Tishtrya and the demon ...