Investigating the Motives of War in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Comparative literature is a knowledge that adapts some works with some other literary works or compares the literature of two or more countries and usually a type of literature that has emerged in two different languages ​​to reveal their commonalities and cultural differences. Comparative literature is a vision of the colorful horizons of art and literature that can explore the cultural contexts of the various nations of the world and show their direct or indirect relationship to each other. As all nations are willingly or unwillingly inspired by each other's literature, this literature is becoming more universal. Eastern literature and Western literature are constantly being influenced. This qualitative analysis method has a new view at the ancient epic texts of Iran and Greece, which showed some of the motives of war in the text of Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh" and Homer's "Iliad and Odyssey". It has highlighted the functions of common mythology in two systems.