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The Epic of King Gesar ( Tibetan: གླིང་གེ་སར།, Wylie: gling ge sar ), also spelled Kesar ( / ˈkɛzər, ˈkɛs -/) or Geser (especially in Mongolian contexts), is an epic from Tibet and Central Asia. It originally developed between 200 or 300 BCE and about 600 CE. Following this, folk balladeers continued to pass on the ...
Mongolian literature is literature written in Mongolia and/or in the Mongolian language. It was greatly influenced by and evolved from its nomadic oral storytelling traditions, [ 1] and it originated in the 13th century. [ 2] The "three peaks" of Mongol literature, The Secret History of the Mongols, Epic of King Gesar and Epic of Jangar, [ 3 ...
The book established a whole new genre of so-called "Milesian tales," of which The Golden Ass by the later Roman writer Apuleius is a prime example. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] The ancient Greek novels Chaereas and Callirhoe [ 90 ] by Chariton and Metiochus and Parthenope [ 91 ] [ 92 ] were probably both written during the late first century BC or early ...
The Shahnameh ( Persian: شاهنامه, romanized : Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', modern Iranian Persian pronunciation [ʃɒːh.nɒː.ˈme] ), [ a] also transliterated Shahnama, [ b] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.
The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turks. The Book of Dede Korkut or Book of Korkut Ata ( Azerbaijani: Kitabi-Dədə Qorqud, کتاب دده قورقود; Turkmen: Kitaby Dädem Gorkut; Turkish: Dede Korkut Kitabı) is the most famous among the dastans or epic stories of the Oghuz Turks.
The work begins with a semi-mythical genealogy of Genghis Khan, born Temüjin. According to legend a blue-grey wolf and a fallow doe begat the first Mongol, named Batachiqan. Eleven generations after Batachiqan, a widow named Alan Gua was abandoned by her in-laws and left with her two boys Bügünütei and Belgünütei.
Lords of the Bow. Wolf of the Plains ( 2007) is a historical novel from English author Conn Iggulden. It is the first book in the Conqueror series based on the Mongols of the Asian steppes. It is titled Genghis: Birth of an Empire in the United States. After completing the Emperor series on the life of Julius Caesar, Iggulden began research for ...
Khan Academy. Khan Academy is an American non-profit [ 3] educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. [ 1] Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. [ 4] The organization produces short video lessons. [ 5]