The existence of many truth-telling historians in ancient Iran as evidenced by Greek historians
In order to destroy the history of ancient Iran, anti-Iranists claim that the history of Iran was written only by the Greeks and that Iranians did not have their own historians and historians. … And finally they conclude that Iranians did not attach importance to reading and writing in general !!!
here to 3 We are talking about the writings of Greek historians who mentioned the writing of history by Iranians .
1) Iranians and Greeks – Plutarch – ص 48
When it was day, Xerxes went to a high place and looked at his ships, how they lined up..
Fanodemus says:
He was sitting on the promontory of the mountain, which is placed above the temple of Hercules, where the sides of Attica are separated from the island by a water strait, but Oxtodorus writes that he settled near Megara on the hills called "horns" and sat on a chair. He was surrounded by many professors who were sitting on the throne, and whatever was going on in the battlefield, they were writing about it.
This expression shows that writing was very popular among Iranians at that time and it can be said that they had a script other than cuneiform for such writings.. Because cuneiform, with its difficulty in writing, it is difficult to do such hasty writings with it..
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2) Herodotus – History of Herodotus – Translated by George Rawlin Sen – Vahid Mazandarani – ص 76
In the history of both , In a section titled << The story of Cyrus >> From a group of Iranian writers who have expressed the absolute truth , It has been mentioned .
Herodotus writes : In this regard, I will follow those Iranian writers who did not glorify the conquests of Cyrus but expressed the absolute truth. .
These sentences alone are a document for the existence of many Iranian historians in the ancient period with a plurality of opinions .
Writing the absolute truth , It shows the freedom of speech in that era .
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3) Iran's heritage – Season 8 ( Iranian literature ) – Professor A . c . Arberry – Translated by Azizullah Hatami
As it can be seen from the writings of Agathias, the Iranian court had an official newspaper even during the Achaemenid period, and the following dynasties continued to do so. .
It was generally thought that it was based on these official newspapers that at the end of the Sassanid reign, the unknown author of the book Khudai Namek was created, which was translated from Pahlavi into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqafa of Iran. ( death 140 e . 757 M . ) And others finally took a new form by the genius of Ferdowsi and became Shahnameh, which is one of the greatest epic poems in the world. .
Now, what happened to the writings of these historians that we have not received much of those works is another topic that we will discuss in the future. .
Definitely, if these works were left; Many of the contents written by our ancient enemies and against us , It was no longer valid .
If Herodotus quotes the facts from the writings
Iranian writers of the Achaemenid period have said, so it should be considered impartial and authentic . In his third book, he narrates about the kingdom of Darius as follows : After Cyrus, Darius decided whether the government should be based on a king or should be governed by a council, two Iranian generals named “Utan” And ” megabytes ” He convinced those who were in favor of a council to establish an individual absolute monarchy in the same way as Cyrus ! Cyrus and the Khamenei dynasty in general were against Greek democracy ( Refer to the book Tarikh Rozgaran Zarin Kob p 281 A quote from Cyrus about Greek democracy ) And that's why King Xerxes mercilessly burned Athens, which was the cradle of civilization and democracy at that time .! However, the Iranian empire was built on the basis of militarism and oppression of other nations, and if Koresh was considered a just and chivalrous king, this was only his personal trait, and the later ones were not like that until his son Kambojie killed his brother Berdia secretly and manfully to become king. ! Iran's past does not solve our problems . We do not deserve this misfortune due to the humility of the contemporary era and backwardness from others. . The only way for us to succeed is to be scientific and acquire capabilities in industry and technology, which advanced countries did, and some like South Korea had no history to be proud of. . Be capable of being wise
Hello and thank you for your very useful content
I had a question
Is there even a single book from the Achaemenid era?
Does this mean that all the books have been destroyed or are they likely to be discovered in the future?
Thanks
With your permission, I am asking you to write an article to refute the writings of anti-Iranists about the killing of Opis by Cyrus , The massacre of Lade by Dariush , The story of the burning of Athens by Xerxes , Slavery in the fields of ancient Iran and … write thank you
Hello, look at these writings and suspicions that have already been discussed about Opis
https://parsiandej.ir/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B3/
About Darius the Great
https://parsiandej.ir/%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%8C-%D9%82%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%85/
About Athens and Xerxes
https://parsiandej.ir/%D8%A2%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86/
About the slave
http://iranbastan2550.blogfa.com/tag/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%88-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4
There is no greater ignorance than that you learn from the writings of the Greeks that the Iranians had writers to be proud of. . Now let's assume that that time has passed, in the present time, which Iranian will you find to explore our scientific history? . We still rely on foreign scholars to translate cuneiform . Please, if you don't mind, visit the museums of Takht Jamshed or Isfahan. All the historical discoveries of Iran were made by suspicious foreigners and our knowledge of our history is based on their writings. . In the future, there will be the same thinking that Iranians were not interested in writing, but foreigners like Professor Grishman tried to read Iranian cuneiform. . Instead of being so proud, go like Grishman, who spent 6 months in the city of Ahar, Azerbaijan, with his wife, sat under the sun for hours in front of a cuneiform tablet and translated and left, and we still don't know what is written on this tablet.. Study and learn the translation of ancient script, this is an honor for Iranian history researchers.
It is natural that with the attack of Alexander and the Arabs and the Mongols (Each one is more bloodthirsty than the other)And setting fire to all our libraries and… It is clear that there is nothing left, now that the post-Islamic era and the dry religious era will remain, we have lost the whole of our history..
Yes, you are right … But some people intend to turn the facts upside down and then draw conclusions in line with their own sinister goals ! Among other things, I can point to an illiterate PDF writer(Mahmoud Rezaqli writes in the book Political History of Ancient Iran:
Achaemenians, in the era when the Greek civilization presented dozens of scientists, philosophers and writers to human history, were unable to provide even one writer to write their own history, and today's fans are like beggars. “Foreign historians” have converted; They only trained warriors and troops to seize and loot ancient civilizations and dominate them, and they forced their lovers to produce lies and legends. )…
Unfortunately, such garbage can be seen a lot in cyberspace .
We are losing our history right now due to the presence of religious and illiterate people. For example, a while ago, one of them told me thank God that Omar attacked Iran and saved us from ignorance, the interesting thing is that Omar Adam agreed. It was bad, but he accepted this job.