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  • Unknown Author (Life of the King of Kings David)
Epoch XII c.(?)
Work

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

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  • Prose
Quote

“Neither Alexander did so, as first he gathered people from his lands and by means of them conquered the West: Europe, Italy, Rome, Africa […] If he had only as few soldiers as Georgians had even Alexander would not have done anything:. (pg. 358 – 359)

 

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  • Rome ( )
  • Italy ( )
  • Alexander of Macedon ( )
Reception of Antiquity
Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.
Comment

G. Mamulia: David’s historian could glean information about Alexander’s route only from “Alexander’s Novel”  (G. Mamulia, Letters by Leonti Mroveli and Juansher, Tbilisi, 1965, pg. 29).

 
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