Ferdowsi
Shahnameh — the Persian national epic
The Homer of Persia. The Shahnameh (Book of Kings) — 50,000 couplets tracing Iran's kings from creation to the Arab conquest — is one of the longest poems ever written by a single author and the foundational text of Persian cultural identity.
Key works
- Shahnameh (Book of Kings)~1010— 50,000 couplets — Iran's national epic, thirty years in the making