Ferdowsi mixed myth and history in the Shahnameh, known in English as the "Book of Kings." It's a chronicle of the rulers and warriors of the great Persian empire, which had come and gone long before the poet was born in 940 A.D.Iranians compare him to the Greek poet Homer, author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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