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	Persepolis (2007): Reviews
		Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
		Persepolis, austere as it may look, is full of warmth and surprise, alive with humor and a fierce independence of spirit.
		Persepolis is as modern as tomorrow's headlines and as classic as an ancient myth.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/persepolis (2368 words)

	Persepolis
		Persepolis was developed mainly by Dariush I The Great (~500 B.C.) and turned to a modern city with running tab water, drainage system, postal service and highways connecting it to other cities of the Persian empire.
		Shiraz-Isfahan Highway approaches Persepolis or Takht-e Jamshid as it is known locally, from the west and turns sharp towards the north at the main staircase and the Gate of All Nations.
		Persepolis was first scientifically excavated under the direction of Ernst Herzfeld, and later by E.F. Schmidt on behalf of the Oriental Institute of Chicago, from 1931 to 1939.
	www.shafaati.de /links/persien/persepolis.htm (7327 words)

	PERSEPOLIS
		At Persepolis, greeting the visitor at the east gate, are two giant figures, muscular bull bodies with human faces and wings, seemingly emerging from two monolithic slabs of stone.
		The height gradients of the terrace divide Persepolis into three distinct areas of occupation: the palace itself, buildings to the south and west of the terrace, and the tombs on the hill to the east of the terrace.
		Persepolis is the burial place and "dynastic center." As Darius was a usurper, the foundation of Persepolis may have been an attempt at legitimizing his reign.
	www.rugreview.com /13-3pers.htm (1858 words)

	Persepolis
		Persepolis is not believed to have had more than just a few thousand inhabitants.
		Of the area that now remains from ancient Persepolis, a large part is believed to have been used by the Persian rulers.
		Persepolis was capital during the summer time, as its location in the mountains made it very cold through the winter months.
	i-cias.com /e.o/persepolis.htm (178 words)

	PARSA (PERSEPOLIS) PALACE COMPLEX - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)© (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a process that was presumably intended to underscore the exalted rank of the Persian king, all visitors to Achaemenid Persepolis were obliged to ascend the 14-meter-high double-return stairway that led to the single formal entrance to the terrace: the freestanding Gate of All Lands.
		In architectural terms, however, the most impressive of all the later buildings at Persepolis consists of the so-called throne hall (or Hall of One Hundred Columns), which was most probably begun by Xerxes and completed by Artaxerxes.
		Subsequent construction at Persepolis was mainly confined to the southeast corner of the terrace and to the creation of a series of private palaces of lesser note.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Archaeology/Hakhamaneshian/persepolis.htm (1719 words)

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		Conceived to be the seat of government for the Achaemenian kings and a center for receptions and ceremonial festivities, the wealth of the Persian empire was evident in all aspects of its construction.
		The magnificent ruins of Persepolis lie at the foot of Kuh-i-Rahmat, or "Mountain of Mercy," in the plain of Marv Dasht about 400 miles south of the present capital city of Teheran.
		He continued the large-scale excavations of the Persepolis complex and its environs until the end of 1939, when the onset of the war in Europe put an end to his archaeological work in Iran.
	groups.msn.com /welcometoiran/persepolis.msnw (594 words)

	Forgotten Wonders: The Throne Hall of Persepolis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Founded in the Sixth Century BC by the Kings of the First Persian Empire (the Achaemenids), Persepolis is located 60 km northeast of Shiraz in Iran.
		Persepolis continued to flourish under the later Achaemenian Kings, until it was burned and destroyed by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
		It is not known whether the burning of the city was accidental, or an act of revenge for the destruction of Temples in Athens in 480 BC by the Persians.
	ce.eng.usf.edu /pharos/wonders/Forgotten/persepolis.html (335 words)

	Persepolis Reconstruction, news
		The film Persepolis is seen from a social and an architectural point of view that is contrary to the Persepolis Recreated film which mostly leans on interviews with archaeologists.
		His recommendation for reconstructing Persepolis is that there should be a conference during which different views can be analyzed and discussed such as the way the windows were built and the use of color schemes.
		They say the images and animations put in the film Persepolis was not the end of their work, and they are continuing with the completion of the visualization of Persepolis and will regularly update their website with images and one-minute video clips.
	www.persepolis3d.com /news.html (2761 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Satrapi follows up Iran picture book
		Persepolis 2 tells the story of Satrapi's life in exile and her return to Iran after the revolution, all in comic strip form.
		The original Persepolis book ended in 1984, when a young Marjane was sent by her parents to live in Austria.
		Persepolis 2, however, looks at her story as she after she returns to Iran.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4045775.stm (599 words)

	Shiraz PERSEPOLIS (TAKHT-E JAMSHID), Palace of Apadana at Best Iran Travel.com
		Persepolis (Capital of Persia in Greek) or Takht-e Jamshid (The Throne of Jamshid) became summer capital of Achaemenian after Pasargadae.
		Persepolis was occupied only on great occasions of national importance.
		Persepolis was used as a setting for an invocation by the whole nation, led by the divinely invested King, by the grace of the Great God Ahura-Mazda, overcame all enemies and established a world empire which was planned to bring peace, order and prosperity into a chaotic world.
	www.bestirantravel.com /sights/shiraz/persepolis.html (460 words)

	Persepolis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Persepolis [Gr.,=city of Persia], ancient city of Persia, ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid empire under Darius I and his successors.
		There are ruins of the palaces of Darius I, Xerxes, and later kings as well as the citadel that contained the treasury looted by Alexander; the ruins lie on a huge platform constructed of limestone from the adjacent mountain.
		Scattered over the plain, a short distance from the platform of Persepolis, are the ruins of Stakhr or Estakhr, the official capital of the Sassanids, whose administrative capital was Ctesiphon.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-persepol.html (490 words)

	Borders - Feature - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
		In powerful fl-and-white comic-strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages 6 to 14, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
		Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran: the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life and the toll that repressive regimes exact on the individual spirit.
		Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=persepolis_rg (923 words)

	Ancient Persepolis (Pârsa) in Fars Province in Iran
		Persepolis: Greek name of one of the capitals of the ancient Persian Empire founded by the great King Darius (522 - 486 BC).
		However this may be it seems as if Darius 'invented' Persepolis as the splendid seat of the government of the Persian empire and as its center for receptions and festivals.
		Persepolis was taken by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in the first weeks of 330 BC.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Persepolis.html (290 words)

	The Friday Review: Persepolis - The Story Of A Childhood
		PERSEPOLIS is author Marjane Satrapi's autobiography of her childhood, growing up in Iran during the turbulent times of the late seventies and early eighties.
		Persepolis is first and foremost a story of a Satrapi's childhood, the story of a little girl growing up into a world that she does not understand.
		The child of liberal Marxist parents and, incidentally, the grand daughter of the last emperor of Iran, (a fact revealed almost as an irrelevance, though it may explain why Satrapi's family are so well educated), young Marjane is incredibly engaging in her dual role as narrator and subject.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=636 (824 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Graphic Equalizer. by Noy Thrupkaew. June 20, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The memoir of her childhood, Persepolis, a "comic," as she calls it, that tells the story of her coming of age during the violent birth of the Islamic Republic.
		Persepolis beautifully captures the quality of childhood memories -- the misperceptions and misunderstandings of overheard conversations, the moments of piercing clarity into adults' hypocrisy and deception.
		Satrapi says she wrote Persepolis to humanize her homeland and to depict the struggles and sacrifices of ordinary Iranians; she worked in the comic form to bring humor, but also precision, to her book.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/06/thrupkaew-n-06-20.html (1577 words)

	Persepolis \| Reverse Shot
		Persepolis in cinematic form is pretty much what would one expect when Satrapi's fl-and-white drawings are given fluid life.
		The simple, single line-based sparseness of her illustrations evoke much more when stock still on a page, where the imagination has room to play, than when placed in motion, and the film is only halfway successful in evoking the varying moods and experiences of Marji, Satrapi's younger self.
		Part of Marji's time abroad involves reconciling her Iranian identity with the prejudices of Europeans and the strangeness of a vastly different culture, but mostly she goes through a series of vaguely and impersonally sketched episodes of young love—one boyfriend turns out to be gay, another cheats on her, and so on.
	www.reverseshot.com /article/persepolis (786 words)

	Iransaga - Persepolis, ancient capital of the Achaemenian kings
		Persepolis was one of the ancient capitals of Persia, established by Darius I in the late 6
		Persepolis consists of the remains of several monumental buildings on a vast artificial stone terrace about 450 by 300 m (1,480 by 1,000 ft).
		Persepolis was eventually abandoned, and it lay buried beneath ashes and rubble until its rediscovery in 1620.
	www.art-arena.com /persepolis.htm (1182 words)

	Persepolis
		There are some indications that the site of Persepolis was already a government's center under Cyrus the Great (559-530) and his son Cambyses II (530-522), but there are no archaeological traces of this older phase.
		However this may be, it seems as if Darius 'invented' Persepolis as the splendid seat of the government of the Achaemenid empire and as its center for receptions and festivals.
		The oldest and largest archive are the Persepolis fortification tablets, 25,000 to 30,000 in number, of which some 2,000 are published and an additional 1,500 were read but not really published.
	www.livius.org /pen-pg/persepolis/persepolis.html (1608 words)

	Pantheon Graphic Novels
		Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers and will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhereâ“and to teach us all a thing or two.
		In powerful fl-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
		Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran: of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life and of the enormous toll repressive regimes exact on the individual spirit.
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/graphicnovels/satrapi.html (636 words)

	History of Iran: Parse or Persepolis
		Conceived to be the seat of government for the Achaemenian kings and a center for receptions and ceremonial festivities, the wealth of the Persian empire was evident in all aspects of its construction.
		According to tablets inscribed in Old Persian and Elamite found at Persepolis, it seems that Darius planned this impressive complex of palaces not only as the seat of government but also, and primarily, as a show place and a spectacular center for the receptions and festivals of the Achaemenian kings and their empire.
		In dealing with the Persepolis platform, we have to understand that the northern part of the Terrace, consisting mainly of the Audience Hall of the Apadana, the Throne Hall, and the Gate of Xerxes, represented the official section of the Persepolis complex, accessible to a restricted public.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/persepolis/persepolis1.php (1637 words)

	artbomb.net
		PERSEPOLIS is a collection of vignettes from the childhood of Marjane Satrapi in the years from 1975 to 1983.
		Though you will have fallen in love with the child Satrapi through the course of her adventures and you will have found yourself relating to her on every page, Satrapi passed those years in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, and there are some things to which you will not want to relate.
		When Satrapi's beloved Uncle Anoosh is captured as an enemy of the State, it's not the tragedy of his fate that sticks to your bones.
	www.artbomb.net /detail.jsp?tid=420 (381 words)

	Persepolis - Movie - Review - The New York Times
		The political dimensions of her story are as clear and bold as her graphic style, but “Persepolis” traffics more in feelings than in slogans, and dwells most persuasively on the uncertainty and ambivalence of adolescence.
		Fearing for her safety in a time of war and political repression, Marjane’s parents (her father is voiced by Simon Abkarian) send her to Austria, and the alienation she experiences there is a sad counterpart to the anxiety of Tehran.
		“Persepolis” is frequently somber, but it is also whimsical and daring, a perfect expression of the imagination’s resistance to the literal-minded and the power-mad, who insist that the world can be seen only in fl and white.
	movies.nytimes.com /2007/12/25/movies/25pers.html (924 words)

	Persepolis FC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Persepolis FC (پرسپوليس in Persian) is a football club based in Tehran, Iran.
		Most of Persepolis' championships at the time were won while Ali Parvin was the manager, and Amir Ali Abedini was the chairmen.
		Persepolis is now one of few clubs in Iranian football that has a functioning reserve team.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persepolis_FC (1568 words)

	Persepolis \| The A.V. Club
		Marjane Satrapi's internationally bestselling comic-book memoir Persepolis recounts her girlhood in Iran and beyond, starting with the Shah being deposed and the rise of Iran's current fundamentalist Islamic state, and stretching through Satrapi's parents' decision to send her to school in Vienna, where she faced a different set of prejudices.
		Satrapi first published Persepolis in France, where she's lived since her 20s, and she's collaborated with Parisian animator Vincent Paronnaud on a feature-film version that loses some of the digressive, impressionistic structure that made the books so charming, but adds a sense of comic whimsy that a single drawing couldn't exactly replicate.
		Persepolis is more about Satrapi's own struggles with what freedom means, especially once she's safely tucked away in Europe, and falling to pieces over bad boyfriend choices instead of whether the cops are going to haul her in for wearing lipstick.
	www.avclub.com /content/cinema/persepolis (547 words)

	Blu-ray.com - Persepolis (Blu-ray) - Blu-ray Review
		Behind the Scenes of Persepolis: One of the most rewarding supplements on the BD, focusing on Satrapi in English interviews, this is another 20 minutes featurette that describes in more detail how Satrapi's graphic novel was adapted for screen.
		Persepolis is worth buying because it has succeeded in ways most films never do: delivering an important story with humor, style, urgency and honesty.
		Persepolis is only the tip of a very big iceberg that is one of the most serious sociological problems of our time.
	www.blu-ray.com /movies/movies.php?id=876&show=review (1778 words)

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