The present study is a fruit of a larger investigation dedicated to the ideological meaning of archery in Iran in the light of other Eastern civilizations, but also in the framework of the ancient Indo-Iranian epos. The article analyses the most important cycles of the Archer-Hero in Iranian mythology and follows its political adaptation in the framework of the Parthian dynasty. It also enters the critical problem of the peculiar absence (with few exceptions) of public "quotations" of archery as a principal mark of the royal power in the Sasanian kingdom. The later reflexes of this sort of political taboo have been discussed with reference to New Persian epics.

Symbolic and Ideological Implications of Archery in Achaemenid and Parthian Kingships / Antonio Panaino. - STAMPA. - 4:(2019), pp. 3.19-3.66.

Symbolic and Ideological Implications of Archery in Achaemenid and Parthian Kingships

Antonio Panaino
2019

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The present study is a fruit of a larger investigation dedicated to the ideological meaning of archery in Iran in the light of other Eastern civilizations, but also in the framework of the ancient Indo-Iranian epos. The article analyses the most important cycles of the Archer-Hero in Iranian mythology and follows its political adaptation in the framework of the Parthian dynasty. It also enters the critical problem of the peculiar absence (with few exceptions) of public "quotations" of archery as a principal mark of the royal power in the Sasanian kingdom. The later reflexes of this sort of political taboo have been discussed with reference to New Persian epics.
2019
Philobiblos. Scrittii in onore di Giovanni Geraci.
19
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Symbolic and Ideological Implications of Archery in Achaemenid and Parthian Kingships / Antonio Panaino. - STAMPA. - 4:(2019), pp. 3.19-3.66.
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