Overview
This volume in Lucent's Mythology and Culture Worldwide series looks at Persian Mythology, drawing connections between ancient Persian culture and its myths, explaining how the beliefs, values, and experiences of that culture are represented in its treasured stories. Origin/creation stories, early gods, mythical kings and heroes, and Zoroastrianism are all covered. This volume has a map of ancient Persia, a visual organizer grouping major characters into types (gods, heroes, etc.), a table of major characters with name pronunciations and brief descriptions, a glossary, sidebars, fact boxes, and bibliography of sources for further study, and a subject index.
Features & Benefits
- This series is designed to help young readers understand the origins, cultural importance and impact of world mythologies.
- These books will explain how mythology reflects the culture that created it.
- Each volume focuses on one cultural or national mythology.
- Major myths, characters, gods and goddesses, and themes of the mythology are presented with a particular emphasis on tying these stories back to important aspects of the culture that produced it.
- Descriptions include, as appropriate, geography, history, natural resources, technological state, social organization, religious beliefs, and values.
- These books also detail how the culture interacted with their gods and goddesses, and how the myths were communicated.
- Each volume contains numerous sidebars and fact boxes, a family tree or diagram that shows relationships of major entities, a pronunciation guide, a glossary, an annotated bibliography and comprehensive index.
