Legendary Patterns in Late Antique Biography: The Parallel Lives of Ardashir I and Constantine the Great / / Matthew O’Farrell.

• Superior document: Iran Studies ; 23
• VerfasserIn: O’Farrell, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Iran Studies ; 23.; Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)

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 Kārnāmag tradition, an originally Middle Persian biographical tradition of Ardashir I.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Matthew O’Farrell -- Copyright page / Matthew O’Farrell -- Acknowledgements / Matthew O’Farrell -- Tables / Matthew O’Farrell -- Abbreviations / Matthew O’Farrell -- A Note on Transliteration / Matthew O’Farrell -- Introduction / Matthew O’Farrell -- Chapter 1 Sequence One and Sequence Two / Matthew O’Farrell -- Chapter 2 The Mesopotamian Background / Matthew O’Farrell -- Chapter 3 Ardashir / Matthew O’Farrell -- Chapter 4 Constantine / Matthew O’Farrell -- Chapter 5 Synthesis / Matthew O’Farrell -- Conclusion / Matthew O’Farrell -- Bibliography / Matthew O’Farrell -- Index of Modern Authors / Matthew O’Farrell -- Index of Premodern Texts Mentioned / Matthew O’Farrell -- Index of Subjects / Matthew O’Farrell.