Zoraster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran

REPRINT 2007. Cloth. Octavo. xxiii, 312 p. illus., fold.col.map. New York, Macmillan: 1899. The work is divided in two sections. The first part is the story of Zoroaster's life. The second part of the work is given up to seven critical appendixes entitled, respectively, as follows: Suggested Explanations of Zoroaster's Name; On the Date of Zoroaster;, Dr. West's Tables of Zoroastrian Chronology; Zoroaster's Native Place and the Scene of his Ministry; Classical Passages mentioning Zoroaster's Name; Allusions to Zoroaster in various other older Literatures; Notes on Sculptures supposed to represent Zoroaster. The list of books connected to the subject and the map of Persia and Afghanistan, with its key, are both valuable additions to the work. This life of Zoroaster is an admirable piece of work, and both the author and all those interested in the subject are to be congratulated on the publication of this beautiful volume in which is told so well the story of the Prophet of Ancient Iran---From a contemporary reviewr.