The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian LiteratureAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2014 M09 28 - 524 pages Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regional literary canon and the active participation of Caucasia’s diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth, early Georgian texts emerge as rich repositories of late antique attitudes and outlooks. |
Contents
Contexts | 1 |
photographs are by the author unless otherwise noted | 10 |
Kartli in the Šatberdivariant of Mokcevay kartlisay tenth | 18 |
permission of dr Florian Knauss | 24 |
prof dr andreas Furtwängler | 26 |
Georgian National Museum Tbilisi | 66 |
The Vitae of Šušanik and Evstati 33 | 105 |
convent Mcxeta | 143 |
The Life of the Successors of Mirian | 261 |
The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali | 271 |
ps Juanšers Continuation | 331 |
Hambavimepeta and Sasanian Caucasia | 353 |
Terminological note | 377 |
Kartvelian Kings and Presiding Princes until the End | 385 |
Mihrānid Bidaxšes of SomxitiGugark | 389 |
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Kartlis cxovreba and the historiographical Mokcevay kartlisay | 169 |
The Life of the Kings | 187 |
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