The sixty-first king, Rusudan, daughter of Queen Tamar and sister of king Lasha-Giorgi, Bagrationi (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)

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Author	Jamtaagmtsereli
Epoch	XIV c.
Work	The sixty-first king, Rusudan, daughter of Queen Tamar and sister of king Lasha-Giorgi, Bagrationi (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)
Type	Prose
Quote	“Eristavi (head feudal) Samadavla […],resembling the Jew, Mosimachus, or the prominent Neoptolemus Pegasus, the famed commander of Myrmidons”. (pg. 301, 302)
Term	Mosimachus ( ) Pegasus ( ) Myrmidons ( ) Neoptolemus ( )

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

Comment	T. Khaukhchishvili: “Gallant fighter and famed archer [Samadavla, - E. K] is compared to Mosimachus. Mosimachus is a Jew Mosimakhus, mentioned earlier (by David’s historian and in “The History and Eulogy of Monarchs” ); while comparing, these two historians, alongside with Mosimakhus, usually mentioned Achilles taught by Centaur, and in this case – Achilles’ son – Neoptolemus” (T. Khaukhchishvili, Antique World in Georgian Historiography, Chronicler, Collection of Works Dedicated to 100^th Anniversary of Iv. Javakhishvili’s Birth, Tbilisi, 1976, pg, 297). T. Khaukhchishvili: whatever concerns Pegasus, nowhere in literature is this epithet accompanying Neoptolemus. Linguistically it seems to be one complex – Neoptolemus-Pegasus”, (just like Alexander-Paridus”, above). It is possible, this is πήγασος Pegasus. Then we may understand this place as – just like Neoptolemus, eristavi Samadavla had a special horse too. But semantically I consider “Pegasus” superfluous here and it probably is an error made in the manuscript (T. Khaukhchishvili, Antique World in Georgian Historiography, Chronicler, Collection of Works Dedicated to 100^th Anniversary of Iv. Javakhishvili’s Birth, Tbilisi, 1976, pg, 294).

Comment

T. Khaukhchishvili: “Gallant fighter and famed archer [Samadavla, - E. K] is compared to Mosimachus. Mosimachus is a Jew Mosimakhus, mentioned earlier (by David’s historian and in “The History and Eulogy of Monarchs” ); while comparing, these two historians, alongside with Mosimakhus, usually mentioned Achilles taught by Centaur, and in this case – Achilles’ son – Neoptolemus” (T. Khaukhchishvili, Antique World in Georgian Historiography, Chronicler, Collection of Works Dedicated to 100^th Anniversary of Iv. Javakhishvili’s Birth, Tbilisi, 1976, pg, 297).

T. Khaukhchishvili: whatever concerns Pegasus, nowhere in literature is this epithet accompanying Neoptolemus. Linguistically it seems to be one complex – Neoptolemus-Pegasus”, (just like Alexander-Paridus”, above). It is possible, this is πήγασος Pegasus. Then we may understand this place as – just like Neoptolemus, eristavi Samadavla had a special horse too. But semantically I consider “Pegasus” superfluous here and it probably is an error made in the manuscript (T. Khaukhchishvili, Antique World in Georgian Historiography, Chronicler, Collection of Works Dedicated to 100^th Anniversary of Iv. Javakhishvili’s Birth, Tbilisi, 1976, pg, 294).

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