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  • Guram Dochanashvili
Epoch 1939-
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Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003)

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  • Prose
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“The word circus is of Latin origin and means circle […] But already in the ancient Crete-Mycenae, they used to grab the sculpted bull by the horns and somersault over it and later, in old Rome, even the gladiators’ fights with each other and beasts of prey were also called circus” (pg. 263-4)

Term
  • Latin ( )
  • circus
  • Rome ( )
  • Crete-Mycenae
  • gladiators ( )
Reception of Antiquity
Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.
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