The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes : Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature /
"Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regiona...
Main Author: | Rapp, Stephen H., (Author) |
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England :
Ashgate,
[2014]
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Sasanian world through Georgian eyes : Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature. |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Contexts
- Part I. Hagiographical texts
- The vitae of Šušanik and Evstatʻi
- The Nino cycle
- Part II. Historiographical texts
- Early historiography and its corpora
- The Life of the kings
- The Life of the successors of Mirian
- The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali
- Ps.-Juanšer's continuation
- Epilogue: Hambavi Mep'et'a and Sasanian Caucasia
- Appendix I: Terminological note
- Appendix II: Table of Georgian literary sources for the Sasanian era
- Appendix III: Table of K'art'velian kings and presiding princes until the end of the Sasanian Empire
- Appendix IV: Table of Mihrānid Bidax'es of Somxitʻi-Gugarkʻ
- Appendix V: Table of Sasanian [Shāhanshāhs].