Genealogy and Analysis of Pre-Islamic Lyrical Prose Stories

The Genre of lyric in Persian literature both in prose and in poetry is more comprehensive than the other types. Unfortunately, most scholars' research in this area, both pre-Islamic and post-Islamic, focuses on poetry and less on prose. Due to this negligence, this research tries to show what is the reason of being unknown for some of these stories by introducing and analyzing four of these stories tries to show how did these texts survive in the post-Islamic era? Some of these stories, although they were verbally prevalent among the people, but were not written in pre-Islamic Persian languages, and only a few of them came to the next era, but the Greeks have brought them in their works. Some although were recorded in the Greek works, but the oral tradition, retained them and brought them to the next era with some changes. The story of Golnar and Ardeshir which is included in the book of Ardeshir Babakan in Pahlavi language, was later directly a reference for Ferdowsi to make it a poem. But Hezarafsan tales have gone a long way and it was important for the non-Persians rather than Persians. Arabs translated it into One Thousands and One Nights alf-Lailat and Laila with some changes.