Life of King of Kings Giorgi (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)

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Author	Unknown Author (Life of King of Kings Giorgi)
Epoch	XIII c.
Work	Life of King of Kings Giorgi (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)
Type	Prose
Quote	“It must remind us of the time of heroes and goliaths, or the period of Hellenian bloodshed, or when the beloved took to expanses for each other’s sake: as Pelops for Hippodamia, the daughter of Oenomaus, Pluto for Persephone”. (pg. 71)
Term	Hellenians ( ) Pelops ( ) Hippodamea ( ) Oenomaus ( ) Pluto ( ) Persephone ( )

Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.

Comment	In P. Ingorokhva’s opinion, the author of “The History and Eulogy of Monarchs” could have taken the plots about Pelops and Hippodamia and Pluto and Persephone from the “Hellenian Tales” by Ephem Mtsire” (P. Ingorokhva, Literary Legacy of Rustaveli Epoc, Rustaveli Compilation, Tbilisi, 1938, p. 48-49). In T. Abuladze’s opinion, he (the author) did not even deem it necessary to footnote some explanations in the given cases, which points to the fact that these personages were not alien to the Georgian reader of the time (I. Abuladze, Tales by Helenians, Enimci’s Chronicles X, Tbilisi, 1941, pg. 9).

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In P. Ingorokhva’s opinion, the author of “The History and Eulogy of Monarchs” could have taken the plots about Pelops and Hippodamia and Pluto and Persephone from the “Hellenian Tales” by Ephem Mtsire” (P. Ingorokhva, Literary Legacy of Rustaveli Epoc, Rustaveli Compilation, Tbilisi, 1938, p. 48-49).

In T. Abuladze’s opinion, he (the author) did not even deem it necessary to footnote some explanations in the given cases, which points to the fact that these personages were not alien to the Georgian reader of the time (I. Abuladze, Tales by Helenians, Enimci’s Chronicles X, Tbilisi, 1941, pg. 9).

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