La religión de los antiguos persas en las filosofías de la historia

Abstract

The ancient Persians have usually had a marginal space, as symbols of alterity, as a consequence of their traditional opposition with the historical model represented by Greece, in the theories of history and progress. Through a review of the opinion about the ancient Persians reflected in works on the philosophies of history, the aim of this paper is to show that one of the elements of the ancient Achaemenids, as it is their religion, has been perceived as positive. The reasons of this paradox between Persians as negatives but their religion as positive can help us to understand some perceptions and aprioristic views in the relationship of this ideas with the historiography.