| Author | |
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| Epoch | XVII C. |
| Work | Rusudaniani (Georgian Prose, book IV, comp. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi, 1983) |
| Type | |
| Quote | “...[Wrathful angel] saw me to the victorious Achilles-like rider, Mosimachus-like archer […], the conqueror of the world like Alexander Macedonian” (pg. 185) |
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Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.
| Comment | According to K. Kekelidze, the name Mosimachus, who was renowned in Alexander Macedonian’s army as the best archer, has come to Georgian annals through Giorgi Amortol’s Chronicles (Sketches from the Old Georgian Literary History, I, 1956, pp. 262-263). |
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