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Depictions of the historical assassins in modern popular culture. ==Literature== *Vladimir Bartol's novel ''Alamut'', published in 1938, deals with Hassan-i Sabbāh and the Assassins, and is named after the fortress of Alamut. Bartol's view of the Assassins is highly negative, seeing Sabbāh as unscrupulous and manipulative, and his followers as fanatics. Bartol was influenced by the recent assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. *The 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gives prominent focus to what he terms "the Brotherhood of Assassins", in section 24 of ''On the Genealogy of Morality''. Nietzsche's signature work is to point to the worthlessness of religion, and to attempt at the transvaluation of values, that is, to transcend the inherited Jewish and Christian politics, psychology and ethics of ressentiment or guilt. He aims at going beyond the categories of good and evil since they suppress the full potential of the strong and talented. Nietzsche heralds the arrival of the so-called 'free spirits' who no longer believe in truth.〔On the Genealogy of Morals, by Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche, Walter Arnold Kaufmann. p. 148〕 Thus, they alone are capable of redeeming the world of the modern ills of comfort, mediocrity, and nihilism. :Importantly, Nietzsche attacks the false spirits who are the host of self-describing 'unbelievers' of modern times who claim to reject religious deception as scholars and philosophers and yet retain the traditional beliefs in good and evil, and truth. Nietzsche compares the genuine free spirits with the Assassins: "When the Christian crusaders in the Orient came across that invincible order of Assassins – that order of free spirits ''par excellence'' whose lowest order received, through some channel or other, a hint about that symbol and spell reserved for the uppermost echelons alone, as their secret: "nothing is true, everything is permitted". Now ''that'' was ''freedom'' of the spirit, ''with that'', belief in truth itself was ''renounced''."〔On the Genealogy of Morals, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Arnold Kaufmann. p. 150〕 * In the novel ''The Walking Drum'' by Louis L'Amour, Mathurin Kerbouchard has to rescue his father from the Alamut *Mark Frost's novel ''The List of Seven'' features an antagonist named Alexander Sparks (based closely on Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Moriarty) who has been trained by several dangerous cults, including the Assassins. * The Assassins appear in the Dan Brown novel ''Angels & Demons''. A hashashin appears in the novel as a major antagonist, often murdering cardinals and letting the protagonist race to find him. * The main characters in Peter Berling's ''The Children of the Grail'' live in Alamut until its destruction. * The Assassins and the Old Man on the Mountain appear in several novels by William S. Burroughs. Burroughs was inspired to using Hassan in his menagerie by the book ''The Master of the Assassins'' by Betty Bouthoul. *A latter-day version of the Assassins and the Old Man of the Mountain figure into the labyrinthine plot of A.W. Hill's alternate reality novel ''Nowhere-Land'', which also features the chimerical CIA agent known as Philby Greenstreet. * ''Prayers for the Assassin'' by Robert Ferrigno includes a former fedayeen principal character. * Dante, in the 19th canto of the ''Inferno'', speaks of `the treacherous assassin' (lo perfido assassin). The assassin also appear in the loosely based video game ''Dante's Inferno''. Also known as "The Avenger" he was one of the Kurdish prisoners whom Dante was tasked with guarding at Acre during the crusades. In exchange for his freedom, as well as her own, the man's wife, who claimed to be his sister, offered to "comfort" Dante. Dante took her offer, which only further enraged the man. After the Siege of Acre, he travelled to Dante's villa in Florence, where he assaulted and killed both Alighiero and Beatrice. In the Hall of Gluttons, Dante learns that the Avenger was the slave girl's cuckolded husband, not his brother, when Lucifer makes him witness Beatrice's murder. He is seen again in the downloadable prequel Dark Forest. When Dante apprehends him, he repeats his line "She wasn't my sister! She was my wife!" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Assassins in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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