LEADER 05428oam 2200781I 450 001 9910787053203321 005 20230808211547.0 010 $a1-4724-3936-8 010 $a1-317-01671-8 010 $a1-317-01672-6 010 $a1-315-55313-9 010 $a1-4724-3935-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315553139 035 $a(CKB)3710000000248413 035 $a(EBL)1808789 035 $a(OCoLC)892245872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001348252 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12547400 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001348252 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11363273 035 $a(PQKB)11765486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1808789 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10989161 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL674681 035 $a(OCoLC)992335569 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5293194 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1010867 035 $a(OCoLC)1027156147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1808789 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000248413 100 $a20180706e20162014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Sasanian world through Georgian eyes $eCaucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature /$fStephen H. Rapp Jr 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (540 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 $a1-322-43399-2 311 $a1-4724-2552-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Contexts -- Part I. Hagiographical texts -- The vitae of S?us?anik and Evstat?i -- 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.-Juans?er'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 Mihra?nid Bidax'es of Somxit?i-Gugark? -- Appendix V: Table of Sasanian [Sha?hansha?hs]. 330 2 $a"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 regional literary canon and the active participation of Caucasia's diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth, early Georgian texts emerge as a rich repository of Late Antique attitudes and outlooks. Georgian hagiographical and historiographical compositions open a unique window onto a northern part of the Sasanian world that, while sharing striking affinities with the Iranian heartland, was home to vibrant, cosmopolitan cultures that developed along their own trajectories. In these sources, precise and accurate information about the core of the Sasanian Empire--and before it, Parthia and Achaemenid Persia--is sparse; yet the thorough structuring of wider Caucasian society along Iranian and especially hybrid Iranic lines is altogether evident. Scrutiny of these texts reveals, inter alia, that the Old Georgian language is saturated with words drawn from Parthian and Middle Persian, a trait shared with Classical Armenian; that Caucasian society, like its Iranian counterpart, was dominated by powerful aristocratic houses, many of whose origins can be traced to Iran itself; and that the conception of kingship in the eastern Georgian realm of K'art'li (Iberia), even centuries after the royal family's Christianisation in the 320s and 330s, was closely aligned with Arsacid and especially Sasanian models. There is also a literary dimension to the Irano-Caucasian nexus, aspects of which this volume exposes for the first time. The oldest surviving specimens of Georgian historiography exhibit intriguing parallels to the lost Sasanian Xwada?y-na?mag, The Book of Kings, one of the precursors to Ferdowsi?'s Sha?hna?ma. As tangible products of the dense cross-cultural web drawing the region together, early Georgian narratives sharpen our understanding of the diversity of the Iranian Commonwealth and demonstrate the persistence of Iranian and Iranic modes well into the medieval epoch"--From publisher's website. 606 $aSassanids$xHistoriography 606 $aSassanids$xHistory$vSources 606 $aGeorgian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHagiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGeorgian language$yTo 1100$vTexts 607 $aIran$xHistory$yTo 640$xHistoriography 607 $aGeorgia (Republic)$xHistory$yTo 1801$xHistoriography 607 $aGeorgia (Republic)$xKings and rulers$xHistoriography 607 $aCaucasus$xHistoriography 615 0$aSassanids$xHistoriography. 615 0$aSassanids$xHistory 615 0$aGeorgian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHagiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGeorgian language 676 $a935/.707072039536 700 $aRapp$b Stephen H.$0622245 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787053203321 996 $aThe Sasanian world through Georgian eyes$93733472 997 $aUNINA