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2. Persepolis (comics) - Wikipedia

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   According to The Greatest Books, a site that aggregates book lists, it is "the 592nd greatest book of all time". [32] Persepolis has won numerous awards, including one for its text at the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario in Angoulême, France, and another for its criticism of authoritarianism in Vitoria, Spain. Marie ...

3. Persepolis (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   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

4. Marjane Satrapi - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. File:Persepolis.webm - Wikipedia

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6. Gate of All Nations - Wikipedia

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   The construction of the Stairs of All Nations and the Gate of All Nations was ordered by the Achaemenid king Xerxes I (486–465 BCE), the successor of the founder of Persepolis, Darius I the Great. [ 1 ]

7. Persepolis - Wikipedia

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   For historical reasons, Persepolis was built where the Achaemenid dynasty was founded, although it was not the center of the empire at that time. Excavations of plaque fragments hint at a scene with a contest between Herakles and Apollo, dubbed A Greek painting at Persepolis. [40]

8. Ali Sami Shirazi - Wikipedia

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   He authored guidebooks on Shiraz and Persepolis. [4] Sami worked under André Godard and later with Mohammad Taqi Mustafavi, director generals of the Iranian General Office of Archaeology. [5] His book on Persepolis was translated by R. N. Sharp, an English reverend and "oriental" scholar who spent more tham 3 decades in Persia. [6]

9. Achaemenid architecture - Wikipedia

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   Achaemenid architecture includes all architectural achievements of the Achaemenid Persians manifesting in construction of spectacular cities used for governance and inhabitation (Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana), temples made for worship and social gatherings (such as Zoroastrian temples), and mausoleums erected in honor of fallen kings (such as the burial tomb of Cyrus the Great).