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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Naturally, the Antiquity, ancient history, learnedness of the Greek of classical epoch, the culture of natural philosophers etc., could not have been an unfamiliar fruit for the... |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “If the author of “Georgics” lived and worked during Caesar’s reign and the classical period of Italian glory, then David Guramishvili lived in the country, ravaged by foreign... |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Who after this will read Vergil’s “Georgics” (will notice, E. K.), that the poems of two different epochs […] are created in the same style […] E.g., the... |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Epicurean cosmogony, Bacchus’ mirthful pageants, elements of pastoral poetry, the story of the cloister of Muses were not alien to David Guramishvili”. (pg. 269) |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “The abundance of which (generic, abstract mythological names and concepts) truly complicates reading of the legendary Vergil, embalmed in glory”. |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | "Octavian distributed the lands in the vicinity of Rome to his faithful allies. Vergil’s father remained without land; the poet went to Rome and the yet young Emperor reinstituted the... |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “The poet (Vergil, E. K.) extols Maecenas, Deities, Muses […] specially recalls the story of mythical Deucalion […] The poet, like the author of “the Nature of... |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Vergil was […] the idolizer of rustic life. This is attested to by his classical Georgics too and it is not surprising, that he snatched up Theocritus’s Bucolic motives, which for... |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “Vergil’s worthy translations have been printed in Europe since the 30-s of the XVIII century […] and who did not write about Vergil! The mosaic found in Bordeaux Museum in Tunisia... |
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Elguja Maghradze | 1926-1999 | Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984) | Prose | “We accept as a sample the recognized, almost deified representative of Bucolic, and generally ancient poetry, the author of “Bucolics” and “Georgics” – Publius... |
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