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N. Popkin | 12:54 p.m. Sept. 11, 2008

I was glad to come upon this page as I intend to use it in my Mythology class as an example of an early Persian poet. It would have been nice to have some of poetry samples on the page if they exist. Perhaps, they were only oral poems.

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Martin Schwartz, professor of Iranian studies at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak at the University of Utah on the theology and poetry of Zarathushtra.

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