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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | What for, the life (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Epicurus teaches us: eat, drink, have fun, be of some good for the world”. He was preaching healthy Hedonism, was not he?” If you are talking about Greeks, why mention Epicurus?... |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “The didactical poetry of D. Guramishvili will not shame itself, even if you oppose it to the didactical poetry of, say, Lucretius, Vergil and Horace.” ( I. Chavchavadze, Full Collection... |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Mysticism has originated from the Greek word – Misticos, which means shrouded in mystery”. (pg. 336) |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “This is a picture, reminiscent of the pictures of death of Seneca, Leopardi and others”. (pg. 332) |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Guramishvili had also known from some sources and used in his own peculiar way these pagan concepts and characters, the events elaborated in detail in ancient Greek, Roman, Phrygian,... |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “They think this (Kopala, E. K.) is a double of the Greek-Roman Deity of Fertility, Phrygian mother of mothers, “magna mater” – Cybele, but Cybele is a woman, though... |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Guramishvili is also a servant to both the “clerical and civilian” Muses”. (pg. 305) |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Christianity had brought the way of life of the Roman society and the ideals of Antiquity through the harshest of criticisms”. (pg. 302) |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Christianity opposed the ideas of peacefulness, kindness, cohabitation and love of others to the wolfish thesis of the ancient world: “homo homini lupus est” (pg. 302) |
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| Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | "The ancient rationalist philosophy cannot counter the new religious anti-intellectual thinking […] The Greek-Roman religion, worshipping many Gods, with its... |
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