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DarkVictory -> RE: The Submissive and The Courtesan (6/19/2008 8:58:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: pinksugarsub
i hadda know -- what is a 'sassanid harem'?
So i used my Google-Fu:
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch22c.htm
Not really helpful -- so can You please explain DarkVictory? Ancient erotic stories fascinate me.
Thank You, Sir.
pinksugarsub
From wikipedia:
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ORIGINAL: WikiPedia
The Sassanid Empire or Sassanid Persian Empire or Sassanian Dynasty (Persian: ساسانیان [sɒsɒnijɒn]) is the name used for the third Iranian dynasty and the second Persian Empire (226–651).[5] The Sassanid dynasty was founded by Ardashir I after defeating the last Parthian (Arsacid) king, Artabanus IV (Persian: اردوان Ardavan) and ended when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632–651), lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the early Arab Caliphate, the first of the Islamic empires. The Sassanid Empire's traditional territory encompassed all of today's Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Afghanistan, eastern parts of Turkey, and parts of Syria, Pakistan, Caucasia, Central Asia and Arabia. The Sassanids called their empire Eranshahr "Dominion of the Aryans (Iranians))". The Sassanid era, encompassing the length of the Late Antiquity period, is considered to be one of Iran's most important and influential historical periods. In many ways the Sassanid period witnessed the highest achievement of Persian civilization, and constituted the last great Iranian Empire before the Muslim conquest and adoption of Islam.[citation needed] Persia influenced Roman civilization considerably during the Sassanids' times,[6] and the Romans reserved for the Sassanid Persians alone the status of equals, exemplified in the letters written by the Roman Emperor to the Persian Shahanshah, which were addressed to "my brother."[citation needed] Their cultural influence extended far beyond the empire's territorial borders, reaching as far as Western Europe,[7] Africa,[8] China and India[9] and played a prominent role in the formation of both European and Asiatic medieval art.[10] This influence carried forward to the early Islamic world with the Muslim conquest of Iran, especially the dynasty's unique, aristocratic culture.[11] Zarinkoob even goes to the extent of claiming that much of what later became known as Islamic culture, architecture, writing and other skills was borrowed mainly from the Sassanid Persians and propagated throughout the broader Muslim world, although this assertion has not been corroborated by other scholars
In many ways, 'our' view of the large, all female harem comes from our exposure to Islam during the reconquista and the crusades. The Islamic tradition of the harem was NOT a part of early Islam, but came from their later exposure to the remnants of the decadent Sassanid empire. It is there, in the late Sassanid period of Persian empire that we would find the tattooed, belled, perfumed, slave girl being trained by the castrated sycophants of the court in sexual skills and courteous servile demeanour.
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