the gathas, consisted of seventeen hymns, are the oldest literary work in iran. these hymns are composed in a syllabic meter and poetical language. in recent centuries, many scholarshave studied the gathas andhave consideredtheir poetic features. some scholars have tried to reveal gathas’ poetic technique on the bases of intertextual evidence, and have compared them with rig-veda. in this artic...

The topic of this paper is an investigation into how architecture may hold the capacity to recognize the reconciliation of man and his world; working from the premise that this is possible within a world view devoid of a transcendental mythos, and lacking a theological or cosmological apriori. Within this ‘mythless present’, we are faced with the paradox of modernism: man’s infinite ability for...

Abstract In his Old English grammar , A. Campbell put forward theory of accentuation, according to which disyllabic words like Bēowulf and ǣniġ receive a half-stress only if made trisyllabic by the addition an inflection (as in Bēowulfes or ǣniġra ), provided middle syllable is heavy. J. Bliss tacitly rejected Campbell’s analysis when he postulated existence metrical type 3B2, rare rhythmical p...