Intensive Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian at The Ohio State University May 10 to June 5, 2017 (original) (raw)
I am offering Intensive Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian this spring/early summer to interested students who can arrange to attend. Graduate students attending CIC institutions (listed in the document) may use the Traveling Scholar Program to attend while covering tuition at their home institution.
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When the Parthians rebelled against the Seleucid Empire in the middle third century BCE, seizing a large section of northeastern Iran, they inherited the challenging responsibility of monitoring the extensive frontier between the Iranian plateau and the Central Asian steppe. Although initially able to maintain working relations with various tribal confederations in the region, with the final collapse of the Bactrian kingdom in the 1305 BCE, the ever-widening eastern frontier of the Parthian state became increasingly unstable, and in the 1205 BCE nomadic warriors devastated the vulnerable eastern territories of the Parthian state, temporarily eliminating Parthian control of the Iranian plateau. This article is a consideration of the failures of the Parthians to meet and overcome the obstacles they faced along their eastern frontier in the 120s BCE and a reevaluation of the causes and consequences of the events. It concludes that western distractions and the mismanagement of eastern affairs by the Arsacids turned a minor dispute into one of the most costly and difficult struggles in Parthian history.
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Assuming reading competency in Upper Intermediate Persian or its equivalent, this course aims to familiarize you with the rhetorical atmosphere and conventions of classical Persian literature (roughly from the 10th to the early 20th centuries C.E.). The term ‘literature’ is here understood with reference to all but the last week of this course in the sense of the discourses of adab, covering poetry in all genres and literary prose that is fictive, Sufi, epistolographical as well as historical. Accordingly, readings for the three classes every week will range across these genres, comprising selections from some of their earliest instances to the latest. You will learn to scan some of the most frequently used meters of Persian poetry. Beginning with two 17th-18th century conspectuses on the history of the Persian language and its literature, we will then begin where the poetic tradition locates one of its own beginnings – in Rūdakī (d.941) – and move forward in time down to 19th century Iran, Afghanistan and Hindustan.
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