Hamid motebassem biography for kids

SIMORQ
(a legendary supernatural bird in Persian literature)                                          

Ferdowsi’s poetic opus, the Shahnameh, is not only one of the most extraordinary works in Persian literature – it ranks among the masterpieces of the world’s literary treasures.

In sheer magnitude, with over fifty thousand verses, our national epic comprises more than twice the number of verses of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad and twenty times more than the German epic, Nibelungensage.

The Shahnamehis indeed unequalled as a literary work.  And if we look at other Persian poets who have explored the themes of love, despair, envy and zeal, we find that while Ferdowsi deals with the same themes, he also unveils the science of Iranian epic history and legends and leads the reader deep into the spirit of his characters, probing a vas