Religion, Cosmology and Empire in Sasanian Iran

February 24, 2012
1:30 – 5:30
Classics 21

Speakers include:

• Matthew Canepa (Art History, University of Minnesota):
  “The Great God, King of Kings and Demon of Demons: Evil and the Projection of Power in Sasanian Iran”
• Touraj Daryaee (History, The University of California, Irvine):
  “Imagining a Zoroastrian Past: The Sasanian Historiographical Tradition”
• Richard Payne (History, Mt. Holyoke College):
  “Cosmology and the Expansion of the Iranian Empire”