Shahnameh

myth:shahnameh

Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the Persian 'Book of Kings', gathered into one vast poem the myth, legend, and history of Iran: the matchless hero Rostam, and the tyrant Zahhak, from whose shoulders grow two devouring serpents until a smith and a hero cast him down. Iran's epic memory, and its own serpent-foe. — medieval literature