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Chabua Amirejibi | 1921-2013 | Giorgi the Splendid (Chabua Amirejibi, Giorgi the Splendid, Tbilisi, 2008) | Prose | “Those Romans, who damaged my right wrist”. (pg. 53) |
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Chabua Amirejibi | 1921-2013 | Giorgi the Splendid (Chabua Amirejibi, Giorgi the Splendid, Tbilisi, 2008) | Prose | “Philadelphus has a tractate – “For the Faithfulness of men”. Philadelphus considers those who reject sincere faithfulness and disinterestedness of others […]as... |
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Basili Ezosmodzgvari | XIII c. | Life of the “King” of Kings Tamar (“Kartlis Tskhovreba”, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959) | Prose | “Zakaria and Ivane, truly more famous men than Ermions” (pg. 128) |
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Basili Ezosmodzgvari | XIII c. | Life of the “King” of Kings Tamar (“Kartlis Tskhovreba”, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959) | Prose | “The warriors returned very happy, in Olympian splendor, because of the victory which was more praiseworthy than Alexander’s victory over Darius”. (pg. 128) |
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Basili Ezosmodzgvari | XIII c. | Life of the “King” of Kings Tamar (“Kartlis Tskhovreba”, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959) | Prose | “Neither he [David Soslan, E.K.] was idled nor let he his serfs be idled” as a certain chronicler says about Alexander”. (pg. 130) |
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Basili Ezosmodzgvari | XIII c. | Life of the “King” of Kings Tamar (“Kartlis Tskhovreba”, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959) | Prose | “But in terms of faith another Constantine spiritually was [“King” Tamar, E. K.]”. (pg. 117) |
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Chakhrukhadze | XII-XIII cc. | Tamariani (Praise of Queen Tamar) (Old Georgian Poetry, V-XII cc. comp. by S. Tsaishvili, vol.I, Tbilisi, 1979) | Poetry | “[My praising]cannot be added upon by either Socrates or Plato, both of them wrote like Ephraim, didn’t they? Neither Iapetos nor Zoroaster could come up with the praise befitting you,... |
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Chakhrukhadze | XII-XIII cc. | Tamariani (Praise of Queen Tamar) (Old Georgian Poetry, V-XII cc. comp. by S. Tsaishvili, vol.I, Tbilisi, 1979) | Poetry | “[David] has shown good commander’s skills. He, generous by nature, managed to defeat adversaries like Achilles” (XVII, 98, 13) |
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Chakhrukhadze | XII-XIII cc. | Tamariani (Praise of Queen Tamar) (Old Georgian Poetry, V-XII cc. comp. by S. Tsaishvili, vol.I, Tbilisi, 1979) | Poetry | “[Tamar] receives precious stones and slaves from Tarsus, Delhi, Egypt and Aleppo. She is greater than Achilles. She is the most powerful” (XVI, 92, 17-18) |
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Chakhrukhadze | XII-XIII cc. | Tamariani (Praise of Queen Tamar) (Old Georgian Poetry, V-XII cc. comp. by S. Tsaishvili, vol.I, Tbilisi, 1979) | Poetry | “Hey, Rhea! Let Cronos make me dumb, I have compared your beauty to rose” (XVI, 88, 5) |
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