Glossary

This local glossary is a shelf-specific companion to the central Good Works Glossary. It begins with the main text-world currently visible in the Persian shelf.

Shelf Terms

The Epic of Kings - Helen Zimmern's English prose retelling of selected hero tales from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, published in 1883.

Shahnameh - Ferdowsi's Book of Kings, the great New Persian epic of Iranian mythic, heroic, and royal memory.

Rustem - Zimmern's spelling of Rostam, the central heroic champion in the shelf text.


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