Zoroaster, the prophet of pre-Islamic Persia, was already a legendary figure, highly reputed for his wisdom and antiquity, when his name first appeared in Europe in Greek authors of the fourth century B.C. From this date, well into the late nineteenth century A.D., Zoroaster's n…
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The purpose of this dissertation, Waves of Translation: Goethe, Hafez, Nietzsche, Zoroaster , is to explore Roland Barthes' theory of myth and Nietzsche's philosophy of the Ewige Wiederkehr as a framework for the study of world literautre. Chapter One, "The Inception of a World …