The Man in the Panther Skin (Shota Rustaveli, The Man in the Panther Skin, Text and Versions, Edited by Akaki Shanidze and Alexandre Baramidze, Tbilisi, 1966)

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Author	Shota Rustaveli
Epoch	XII-XIII
Work	The Man in the Panther Skin (Shota Rustaveli, The Man in the Panther Skin, Text and Versions, Edited by Akaki Shanidze and Alexandre Baramidze, Tbilisi, 1966)
Type	Poetry
Quote	“Pridoni said: ‘I understand, I know what you have perceived: None could forestall at the gates of the fortress that horse of yours that once was mine; When I gave it to you as a gift I knew not that we should want to face up to Kadjis in Kadjeti fortress; Otherwise I would by no means have given it to you as a gift, such is - I should tell you or not - mine avarice!‘ Pridoni the cheerful jokes with such discourse as this; Thereupon they, the eloquent, wise-worded ones, laughed, They joked one with another, with merriment beseeming them. They dismounted and donned their armor; they mounted those steeds of theirs, which were the fastest.” (Stanzas 1405-1406)
Term	horse ( Trojan horse, Homer, Iliad, Odyssey )

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

Comment	One of the chapters of Rustaveli’s “The Man in the Panther Skin” with the title “The Council of Tarieli”, in particular, the Stanzas 1405-1406 reveal the parodic allusion to the Classical Tradition, specifically, to the Trojan wooden horse, the best known from the Homeric epic. See in details: Z. Khintibidze, The Compositional Function of a Parodic Allusion to the Classical Tradition in Rustaveli’s “The Man in the Panther Skin” (in Georgian and English), The Kartvelologist - The Journal of Georgian Studies, vol. 6 (21), http://kartvelologi.tsu.ge . [Z.Kh.]

Comment

One of the chapters of Rustaveli’s “The Man in the Panther Skin” with the title “The Council of Tarieli”, in particular, the Stanzas 1405-1406 reveal the parodic allusion to the Classical Tradition, specifically, to the Trojan wooden horse, the best known from the Homeric epic. See in details: Z. Khintibidze, The Compositional Function of a Parodic Allusion to the Classical Tradition in Rustaveli’s “The Man in the Panther Skin” (in Georgian and English), The Kartvelologist - The Journal of Georgian Studies, vol. 6 (21), http://kartvelologi.tsu.ge . [Z.Kh.]

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