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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 | “Many an old armor, swords, shields and other exotic weapons. From the times of Caesars at that, their faces” (pg. 207) |
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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 | “Earlier he showed me the depository of books. Many books of all kinds, religious and secular, also philosophical. He took me into the vault. Plato, Aristotle and their peers, painted as they... |
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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 | “Believe me Rome is such, even if you walk in it for a hundred years, its surprises will never end… Believe me what I write is much less than the reality, you can’t even encompass... |
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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 one other idol, made of marble, cut out in a peculiar way. A woman on one stone, a pagan god, was overtaken by a man and caught and the woman has turned into a bay-tree” (pg.... |
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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 | “One wolf cut from porphyry stone, breast-fed two youths. Rome had been built by them” (pg. 200) |
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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 | “Many idols, ancient Chronos and its friends – some made of marble, others – of black stone and still others – of porphyry. Pagan gods, old Caesars, made in their time, many... |
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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 one palace […]. Outlandish cut marble, all kinds of stone they had found in old Rome” (pg. 200) |
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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 | “But there was one place of idolatry, which they called the Temple of Many Gods” (pg. 197) |
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| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 (XVII-XVIII) | Wisdom of Fancy (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “He married the fourth, that of the king. She was as beautiful as Chronos and her cheeks were better than cut ruby” (pg. 46) |
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| Goderdzi Chokheli | 1954-2007 (XX-XXI) | Khuchuchula (Goderdzi Chokheli, The Treasure of Georgian Prose, Book 16, My Book, Stories, Tbilsi, 2010) | Prose | “ As early as 25 years ago, the Greek Philosophers expressed opinion, that matter consists of the minuscule particles, unseen by eye” (236) |
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