Rostam and Sohrab

Ferdowsi · c. 1010 CE · Poem · Persian · Medieval

The greatest champion of Iran fathers a son in a foreign court and rides home before the boy is born. Sohrab grows up hunting for the father he has never seen, and war puts the two of them across a field from each other with neither name spoken. Persia's great tragedy.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ Oedipus Rex
  Sophocles · c. 429 BCE · Play
• ↓ Zahhak and Kaveh the Blacksmith
  Ferdowsi · c. 1010 CE · Myth / Legend — shares sources with this

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