The Shahnameh
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Kaveh

کاوه

the blacksmith

Lost seventeen sons to the serpents. When they came for the eighteenth he tore up the tyrant's decree in open court, put his leather apron on a spear, and started a revolution.

Spans
2 reigns
Years, as the poem counts
1,500
From reign to reign
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