A Comparative Study of Greek and Iranian myths in the Light of Bakhtin's Theories

Iran and Greece with their ancient civilization have been the subject of researchers from the political confrontation of Greek democratic society and Iran''s monarchy and many other perspectives. However comparing the myths of the two nations has been neglected by the researchers; therefore، the present paper puts forward a Bakhtinian reading of the myths of Iran and Greece. According to Bakhtin، Iranian and Greek myths have fundamental differences to consider. The main three differences taken into account in this paper is firstly the absence of the other in Iranian myths and its presence in Greek''s; secondly the presence of dialogue in Greek myths and its absence in Iranian''s، and finally the distinguished task of gods in Greek myths and its absence in Iranian''s.