Sasanian World Through Georgian Eyes - Caucasia Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature

Zusatztext 'Rapp's writing is a pleasure to read...I expect that most readers will find themselves happily turning page to page as they follow the course Rapp has laid out... The book merits immediate attention from Kartvelologists! Armenologists! and Iranologists. More generally! historians of Late Antiquity east of Byzantium! especially at the time of the waning of Sasanian power! will find much of interest...' SEHEPUNKTE Informationen zum Autor Stephen H. Rapp Jr is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University! Texas! USA. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: Contexts. Part I Hagiographical Texts: The Vitae of Susanik and Evstat'i; The Nino Cycle. Part II Historiographical Texts: K'art'lis c'xovreba and the historiographical Mok'c'evay k'art'lisay; The Life of the Kings; The Life of the Successors of Mirian; The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali; Ps.-Juanser's continuation. Epilogue: Hambavi mep'et'a and Sasanian Caucasia; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Stephen H. Rapp Jr, Dr. Stephen H. Rapp, Stephen H. Rapp
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2014
• EAN: 9781472425522
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-2552-2
• No. of pages: 450
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, CE period up to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Persian Empire