Tradition of Guests Reception in Shahnameh by Ferdowsi and Odyssey by Homer

Subject Areas : شعر

Esfandiar Narimani ¹ (Assistant Professor, Persian Language & Literature, Islamic Allameh Tabatabaei University)

Received: 2020-02-19 Accepted : 2020-02-19 Published : 2020-01-21

Keywords: شاهنامه, اودیسه, Shahnameh, Odyssey, میزبان, Host, آیین پذیرایی, میهمان, reception tradition, guest,

Abstract :

Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh" and Homer's "Odyssey" are two samples of the world's oldest and most famous epics and represent many of the ancient Iranian and Greek traditions. The guests’ reception is one of the rituals that has been very important among the people of two lands and its various stages such as welcoming, washing the hands, decorating (food) table, taking to the bathroom, preparing the bed, convoying and so on which were done with special care and delicacy. Various stages of entertaining and guests’ reception are held with a lot of optimism ceremonies widely in “Shahnameh”. In the mentioned book, depending on the host or guest, the king, the prince or the hero, this tradition is performed in a different way. According to the Greeks, this religion even had the aspect of Sepand and Minovi and was associated with their ancient myths and beliefs. This paper, reviewes examples from five stories in "Shahnameh" by Ferdowsi (Fereidoon, Manouchehr, Siavash, Rostam and Sohrab, Rostam and Esfandiar) and examples from "Odyssey to check the tradition of guests’ serving.

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