Sasan

Sassan (also Sasan; persian ساسان ) is a masculine first name, the first time occurred historically as eponymous ancestor of the Sassanids, said to have lived around 200 AD. Today, it is the oriental language area a common name.

About the historical personality Sassan is hardly secured something. There are several, sometimes contradictory narratives. In a story told by Tabari, which was however written down until centuries after the fall of the Sassanids, Sassan was the father Papaks the Father Ardaschirs I., and Head of the Fire Temple in Istachr ( Tabari I 814). Karnamak -i Ardashir ( The deeds book Ardaschirs ) According to a later middle Persian work which, Sassan, however, was the father-in Papaks. According to another version Sassan was a shepherd; Papak told you that the Son Sassans would one day become a powerful ruler, and so he gave him his daughter to wife. Problem, the reconstruction of the early Sassanids is only because they are silent about the family relationship between Sassan and Papak: In the well-known inscription of Naqsch -e Rostam from the time Schapurs I., the son Ardaschirs, the ancestors of the Sassanids are enumerated, which is referred to as the father Ardaschirs Papak, but will not be discussed on the familial connection to Sassan also mentioned there.

The only certainty is that the Sassanids considered as their progenitor not Papak but Sassan; possible but also that Sassan may have been only a legendary person, to which the Sassanids summoned, much like the Achaemenids back led to Achaemenes.