Gouy-o-Chogân: The ball and the polo stick in history, culture and art of Iran.= Guy va chugan: Der gustere tarikh, farhang va hanr Iran. English translation by Shirin Samii. [BOXED].

Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In publisher's special box. Folio. (34 x 25 cm). In English and Persian (parallel text in all descriptions of visual materials; historical texts also bilingual in English and Persian separate). 12, [3], 585 p., many color and b/w ills. and photos. Gouy-O-Chogân: The ball and the polo stick in history, culture and art of Iran.= Guy va chugan: Der gustere tarikh, farhang va hanr Iran. English translation by Shirin Samii. [BOXED]. According to historical documents, the polo game in Iran is more than 3000 years old and has been uninterrupted throughout history and has become so intertwined with the history, culture, art and literature of Persian land that it has become part of every Iranian's identity. There are thousands of important historical documents from the polo game about different periods of history, some of which are mentioned in this book. The role of the polo and the polo stick, the spread of this game dating back 3000 years to the empires of Zoroastrianism, Achaemenid and Sasanid, and the continuation of it to the present day, is clearly seen in the seals found in the archaeological excavations in the large plateaus of Iran. One of the most important challenges of this study was the lack of reliable researches and sources of polo game from the prehistoric period to the Achaemenid period and the dispersal of recorded sources from the Achaemenid Empire to the Islamic period of Iran. Undoubtedly, if more extensive researches are done in different periods of ancient Iranian history, more and more traces of the game of polo can be traced and recorded. Contents: THe Achaemenid Empire.; Simultaneous development of the body and the mind.; Local governments of Persian Kings.; The history of Iran as described by Cambridge.; Arthur Upam Pope.; The Parthian Empire.; The Sassanid Empire.; The written customs of the Sassanid Era.; A part of the teaching of polo (from the book of Aeen Namak).; The language of polo in the Sassanid Era.; Army medals or Sassanid emblems.; Chogandar (the person responsible for the game of polo).; Polo in the Nasr Samanid Era.; Polo in Ghaznavid and Seljuq Era.; Naqsh-e Jahan Square.; Ali Qapoo.; Charles Richard.; Shah Abbas's love for polo.; Horse riding and polo playing of women in the Safavid Era.; Teahouses and Zoorkhaneh in the Safavid Era.; The travelogue of the Shirley Brothers at the time of Shah Abbas the Great.; The Qajar Era.; The Pahlavi Era.; Polo in the Iranian Armed Forces.; Polo in the contemporary era.; Thee history of the game of polo.; The role of the horse in the history and culture of Iran.; Kurdish horses.; The Caspian horses.