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This talk is about the idea of Paradise as it was imagined in the Ancient Near East and its connections to the Biblical and Greek notions through the Zoroastrian tradition. Not only the term itself means a walled garden, but this notion was used through imperial ideology by several ancient empires in antiquity.
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PROGRAM
December 6, 2014 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Paradise as a Walled Garden in Ancient Persia
Florence Gould Theater, Legion of Honor
Presented by Touraj Daryaee Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World, History Department, and Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California, Irvine
Admission:
AAC members: Free / General: Suggested donation $5
