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Persepolis 2.0 is an updated version of Satrapi's story, created by different authors who combined Satrapi's illustrations with new text about the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Only ten pages long, Persepolis 2.0 recounts the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12, 2009.
Marjane Satrapi (French: [maʁʒan satʁapi]; Persian: مرجان ساتراپی [mæɾˈdʒɒːn(e) sɒːtɾɒːˈpiː]; [a] born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian [1] [2] graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Xerxes I (/ ˈ z ɜː r k ˌ s iː z / ZURK-seez [2] [a] c. 518 – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, [4] was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC.
Persepolis Rising is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the seventh book in their series The Expanse. The title of the novel was announced in September 2016 and the cover was revealed on December 12, 2016.
The Tachara stands back to back to the Apadana, and is oriented southward. [5] Measuring 1,160 square meters (12,500 square feet), it is the smallest of the palace buildings on the Terrace at Persepolis. [6] As the oldest of the palace structures on the Terrace, [2] it was constructed of the finest quality gray stone. Bas-reliefs from the Tachara.
Yefremov was a historian and paleontologist who took a deep interest in Ancient Greece. The earliest roots of the novel can be found in his 1946 tale Callirhoe (Russian: Каллироя), where the meeting between Callirhoe and Antenor is reworked into the meeting between Thaïs and Ptolemy.Plans for writing a novel based on the life of Thaïs were found in Yefremov's notes as early as 1951.
In Greek mythology, Persepolis (Ancient Greek: Περσέπολις) or Perseptolis (Περσέπτολις) was the son of Telemachus and Nausicaa, or of Odysseus and Nausicaa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Notes