Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
(1910–2012), distinguished scholar of classical philology, especially concerning ancient Indo-Iranian studies. See DUCHESNE-GUILLEMIN, JACQUES.
- ANTHROPOMORPHISM
ANTHROPOMORPHISM in Iranian religions. Ahura Mazdā in the gāthās was conceived of, although invisible and immortal, as of human form, with…
- FRANCE ix. IMAGE OF PERSIA AND PERSIAN LITERATURE AMONG FRENCH AUTHORS
FRANCE ix. THE IMAGE OF PERSIA AND PERSIAN LITERATURE AMONG FRENCH AUTHORS Whereas Germany could vaunt Goethe’s West-östlicher Diwan and…
- ĀDĀ
ĀDĀ “requital” in Avestan. In the Gāthās the term implies a two-way process. It may proceed from Ahura Mazdā to…
- AKŌMAN
AKŌMAN, “Evil Mind,” a term personified as a demon in Zoroastrianism. It is apparently not yet wholly personified in the…
- ANQUETIL-DUPERRON
ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, ABRAHAM HYACINTHE (1731-1805), French orientalist, born in Paris on 7 December 1731, the fourth of seven children of Pierre…
- AOGƎMADAĒČĀ
AOGƎMADAĒČĀ, a small prayer and meditation on death, made up of twenty-nine Avestan quotations (one of them Gathic) embedded in…
- ATHENAIOS OF NAUCRATIS
ATHENAIOS of NAUCRATIS, wrote the Deipnosophistai (Sophists at dinner), his only extant work, in which in about a hundred passages…
- ĀYADANA
ĀYADANA “place of cult.” The term occurs once in the Old Persian Bīstūn inscription of Darius I (DB 1.63f.): āyadanā…
- AHRIMAN
AHRIMAN (Avestan: Angra/Aŋra Mainyu; not attested in Old Persian), demon, God’s adversary in the Zoroastrian religion. He seems to have…
- EPIPHANIUS
EPIPHANIUS (b. ca. 315 [?] near Eleutheropolis, Judaea; d. 403 in Constantia, Cyprus), bishop of Constantia on Cyprus, founded on…
- DEIPNOSOPHISTAÍ
DEIPNOSOPHISTAÍ (Banquet of the Sophists), a miscellany in the form of dialogues ostensibly conducted at table, including approximately one hundred…
- DEAD SEA SCROLLS
DEADSEA SCROLLS, parchment and papyrus scrolls written in Hebrew, mainly of the 1st centuries B.C.E. and C.E., found in caves…
- CUMONT, FRANZ VALÉRY MARIE
CUMONT, FRANZ VALÉRY MARIE (b. Aalst, Belgium, 3 January 1868, d. Brussels, 20 August 1947), classical philologist and historian of…
- Greece iii. Persian Influence on Greek Thought
GREECE iii. PERSIAN INFLUENCE ON GREEK THOUGHT IRAN AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY The idea of oriental, and especially Iranian,…
- WIKANDER, Oscar Stig
WIKANDER, Oscar Stig (b. 27 August 1908, Norttälje, Sweden; d. 20 December 1983, Uppsala, Sweden; FIGURE 1), Iranist, comparatist, and…