Ferdowsi — Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is a monumental epic poem chronicling the mythical and historical past of Iran. It is considered the national epic of Iran and a masterpiece of Persian literature.

Sources for Ferdowsi — Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

• Read the full text
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Persian_Literature/Volume_1/The_Sh%C3%A1h_N%C3%A1meh
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shah_Nameh
• https://archive.org/details/shahnama01firduoft
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh

Ferdowsi — Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings in Epics

Held in the Epics chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Homer — The Iliad (−750)
• Homer — The Odyssey (−725)
• Epic of Gilgamesh (−2100)
• Virgil — The Aeneid (−19)
• Beowulf (anonymous, Old English) (1000)
• Vyasa (attrib.) — The Mahabharata (−400)
• Valmiki (attrib.) — The Ramayana (−500)
• Luo Guanzhong — Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Kuo) (1400)
• Elias Lönnrot (compiler) — The Kalevala (1849)
• Apollonius of Rhodes — The Argonautica (Jason and the Golden Fleece) (−250)
• Statius — The Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes) (92)
• Snorri Sturluson — The Prose Edda (1220)
• The Poetic Edda (anonymous, Old Norse) (1270)
• The Saga of the Volsungs (1270)
• Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) (1100)
• The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (1450)
• The Book of Dede Korkut (1300)