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| Demna Shengelaia | 1896-1990 (XX) | Bata Kekia (Demna Shengelaia, Bata Kekia, Tbilisi 1966) | Prose | “For example I know that Rioni was called Phasis in old times, that the Golden Goat hung on the oak tree in our fields and because of that tart Medea those Greedy Greeks stole it from us”... |
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| Demna Shengelaia | 1896-1990 (XX) | Bata Kekia (Demna Shengelaia, Bata Kekia, Tbilisi 1966) | Prose | “I wonder a lot about that Golden Goat story, but what can you do now, only the nitwits cry over the spilt milk […]. Had I had that blessed Goat, I wouldn’t have had to worry about... |
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| Demna Shengelaia | 1896-1990 (XX) | Bata Kekia (Demna Shengelaia, Bata Kekia, Tbilisi 1966) | Prose | “To tell you frankly, I have nothing to hide from you, when I remember that blasted Golden Goat, - didn’t that happen at the time long forgotten? My heart aches and I curse the... |
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| Demna Shengelaia | 1896-1990 (XX) | Bata Kekia (Demna Shengelaia, Bata Kekia, Tbilisi 1966) | Prose | “Tell me, what am I shaking? Once that Golden Goat which the Greeks stole from us, hung on my branches […] The Greeks wanted us, I know well, to remain without wine-skin, and that is why... |
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| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 (XVII-XVIII) | Travel to Europe (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “There was a corridor all around us and on the floor there were hundreds of pagan or old kings’ faces carved out” (pg. 260) |
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| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 (XVII-XVIII) | Travel to Europe (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “And in those houses the faces of ancient Caesars and many strange pagan Gods made of wood” (pg. 241) |
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| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 (XVII-XVIII) | Travel to Europe (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “From there we were taken to the other pagan temple. There were pillars all around and above – an arch. They used to call it God of the Sun and consecrated it as the church of the mother... |
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| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 (XVII-XVIII) | Travel to Europe (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “In August we headed for where Nero had put John the Baptist in the boiling tar” (pg. 232) |
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| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 (XVII-XVIII) | Travel to Europe (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “There used to be one pagan shrine of the God of Wine, built in those times. […] Wine God and grapes, picking grapes and making wine and wine cellars and drinking and drunkenness... |
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| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 (XVII-XVIII) | Travel to Europe (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “Then they took us up into the dome, Roman country and the sea is all visible in that copper jug” (pg. 217) |
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