{"title":"Reshaping Iran’s Past and Building Its Future","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 13 agues that the Sasanians created a new vision of the Iranian past and their central role in it by building a new sacred topography. It argues that Avestan sites of memory emerged at locales with no previous Achaemenid monumental activity but which benefited from beautiful and dramatic natural features.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iranian Expanse","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0013","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chapter 13 agues that the Sasanians created a new vision of the Iranian past and their central role in it by building a new sacred topography. It argues that Avestan sites of memory emerged at locales with no previous Achaemenid monumental activity but which benefited from beautiful and dramatic natural features.