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Correspondence of Gordiya Shᾱhnᾱmeh with
Athena in Iliad

1
Aghdas Fatehi

Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language & Literature, University
of Qom, Qom, Iran.

Abstract

The current research has analyzed the similarities and differences between
Gordiya, the historical personality of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and Athena, the
goddess of Greek mythology. These two female heroes share characteristics
such as beauty, nobility, wisdom, activism, fighting and skills in using martial
arts. The main difference between these two bodies is that Athena has the divine
nature. This research is based on the fact that Indo-European goddesses like
Athena, while they themselves, took some characteristics from the social culture
of women of older tribes like the Scythians and integrated them; Gradually in
the course of time, due to causes or factors, some of their characteristics have
been given to the characters of the epics of the Indo-European nations, and
those characteristics have been distributed among the characters of the epic
works. Based on this, the study of the personality of a great goddess like Athena
and its comparison with Gordiya in the Iranian epic shows that Gordiya, under
the influence of the natural evolution of the myth as well as the cultural
interactions between the two nations of Iran and Greece, took some of Athena's
general and comprehensive characteristics from her. be taken The findings of
the research support the idea that Gordiya is a broken and scattered piece of
Athena in Greek mythology; Because some aspects of his personality are clearly
recognizable in Gordiya's body.
Keywords: Adaptation, Shahnameh, Iliad, Athena, Gordiya.

1 Email: Fatehiaghdas34@gmail.com.