Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape

March 3, 2023 The narrative stories and physical landscapes of the Sasanian Empire run parallel to each other, intersecting in areas where historical source and physical remnant of the material culture collide. This is specifically relevant in the borderlands of the Sasanian’s vast realm, between the lands of Eran and An-Eran, where monumental structures survived for centuries after the fall of the empire and the memory of epic and traumatic events of a powerful dynasty lived on in the landscape. This paper seeks to explore the interface between history and the landscape to try to glimpse the ways in which a population living in the lands of the Sasanian Empire remembered the history of the dynasty through the stories told. MacDonald, Eve. "Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape," Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series (March 3, 2023). https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/media/vid...