volume Number 10، number In Volume 4، Winter 2018 ، issue Number 38

Structural and Content-based Stylistics of Educational (Advisory) Texts of Ancient Persian and Avesta

Nasrin Aslani, Zohreh Zarshenas(Author in Charge)

Abstract
In all historical periods from the beginning to the present, the social and religious situation has a direct impact on the formation of literature, the style of writing and its content; in fact, the most important part of the literature of each land is its educational literature, and advisory texts which constitute a large part of the educational literature of each period. Sometimes authors have created them not just as a piece of writing, rather for teaching and advising. Advice letters are born according to the social and religious conditions of each period and with content related to the social conditions of that period, and in addition to the proper implementation of the prevailing rules of religion in each period, their authors have attempted to teach directly or indirectly the manner of governing, truthfulness and conduct, and ultimately the right ways of life. Advice means guidance or recommendations concerning prudent action, and the texts in the field of are considered as oral literature, and a transition from one to another, and only by studying the social conditions of each period and its content, and the style of writing the works of that period, researchers can understand the date of the writing and even recognize the author’s position in that period. This research is descriptive-analytic and based on library data. It examines the style of writing and content of the ancient era, the advice given in the inscriptions of the Achaemenid kings and the Avesta book. The most important

Keyword
Educational literature (Adviso , Achaemenid , Ancient Persian , Avestan

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