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Epoch XII c.(?)
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Life of the King of Kings David (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. I, Tbilisi, 1955)

Type
  • Prose
Quote

“And he lavishly collected everything he saw translated into Georgian from other languages, old and new, like the other Ptolemy”. (pg. 347)

Term
  • Ptolemy ( )
Reception of Antiquity
Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.
Comment

T. Khaukhchisvili: “It is possible that David’s historian knew Ptolemy’s name and life through Chronograph” (T. Khaukhchishvili, Ancient World in the Historiography of Rustaveli Epoch, ”Macne”, N 3, Tbilisi, 1974, pg. 121).

 
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