History Of Ancient Georgia Classical And Late Antiquity
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History Of Ancient Georgia Classical And Late Antiquity
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Author : Giorgi Melikishvili
language : en
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Release Date : 2023-06-30
History Of Ancient Georgia Classical And Late Antiquity written by Giorgi Melikishvili and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with categories.
This book "History of Ancient Georgia" written by a widely recognized Georgian scientist Giorgi Melikishvili covers the fundamental issues of the ancient history of Georgia. It presents a picture of the social structure and the social layers of the Kartli (Iberia) population; the book studies and analyzes the political and social institutions. A complex analysis of the history of ancient Georgia based on different sources: archaeological findings, linguistic data, Assyrian, Urartian, Graeco-Roman, Armenian, and Georgian medieval chronicles together with texts and original linguistic and methodological observations have been used. They have allowed the creation of new prospects in Kartvelological and Caucasiological studies and helped to reconstruct the history of ancient Georgia, the picture of the formation of the ancient political entities of Diauehi, Colchis and the first united Kartvelian state. The reader can notice the influence of Soviet ideology: however, the book remains a standard work in the field even today. It is significant that even where the methodological basis and the questions have changed substantially in today's science (for example, the understanding of ethnos, ethnogenesis, and some other issues), we cannot ignore the material and argumentation brought by the great scholar, Professor Melikishvili. Moreover, the general understanding of the history of ancient Georgia, its periodization, and the list of primary sources is still the same as set by this work. The editors hope that this fundamental work on the history of Georgia will attract specialists and interested readers.
Georgia In Antiquity
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Author : David Braund
language : en
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Release Date : 1994
Georgia In Antiquity written by David Braund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Colchis categories.
The Sasanian World Through Georgian Eyes
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Author : Stephen H. Rapp Jr
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
The Sasanian World Through Georgian Eyes written by Stephen H. Rapp Jr and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
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 Xwadāy-nāmag, The Book of Kings, one of the precursors to Ferdowsī’s Shāhnāma. As tangible products of the dense cross-cultural web drawing the re
Researches In Iberia Colchology
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Author : Gela Gamqreliże
language : en
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Release Date : 2012
Researches In Iberia Colchology written by Gela Gamqreliże and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Colchis categories.
Georgia In Antiquity
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Author : David Braund
language : en
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Release Date : 1994
Georgia In Antiquity written by David Braund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Colchis categories.
The first full history of ancient Georgia ever to be written outside Georgia itself, this book also serves as a valuable introduction to the substantial archaeological work that has been carried out there in recent decades. Designed to open up ancient Georgia for the world of scholarship at large, it is not only a history of a neglected region, but also a sustained attempt to inform topics and issues that are more familiar to the historians of antiquity. Examples include myths of the periphery; Caucasian mountains and their passes; Greek colonization; the Persian, Athenian, and Selecuid empires; Pompey's conquest of Mithridates' empire; the development of the Roman frontier in the eastern Black Sea region; Roman diplomacy in Iberia; the Christianization of Iberia; Sassanian ambitions in Transcaucasia; and Byzantine warfare there.
Monastic Education In Late Antiquity
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Author : Lillian I. Larsen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-23
Monastic Education In Late Antiquity written by Lillian I. Larsen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with History categories.
Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.
Dariali The Caspian Gates In The Caucasus From Antiquity To The Age Of The Huns And The Middle Ages
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Author : Eberhard Sauer
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2020-04-30
Dariali The Caspian Gates In The Caucasus From Antiquity To The Age Of The Huns And The Middle Ages written by Eberhard Sauer and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with Social Science categories.
The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing about the end of the world. Humanity’s fate depended on a gated barrier deep in Europe’s highest and most forbidding mountain chain. Centuries before the emergence of such apocalyptic beliefs, the gorge had reached world fame. It was the target of a planned military expedition by the Emperor Nero. Chained to the dramatic sheer cliffs, framing the narrow passage, the mythical fire-thief Prometheus suffered severe punishment, his liver devoured by an eagle. It was known under multiple names, most commonly the Caspian or Alan Gates. Featuring in the works of literary giants, no other mountain pass in the ancient and medieval world matches Dariali’s fame. Yet little was known about the materiality of this mythical place. A team of archaeologists has now shed much new light on the major gorge-blocking fort and a barrier wall on a steep rocky ridge further north. The walls still standing today were built around the time of the first major Hunnic invasion in the late fourth century – when the Caucasus defenses feature increasingly prominently in negotiations between the Great Powers of Persia and Rome. In its endeavor to strongly fortify the strategic mountain pass through the Central Caucasus, the workforce erased most traces of earlier occupation. The Persian-built bastion saw heavy occupation for 600 years. Its multi-faith medieval garrison controlled Trans-Caucasian traffic. Everyday objects and human remains reveal harsh living conditions and close connections to the Muslim South, as well as the steppe world of the north. The Caspian Gates explains how a highly strategic rock has played a pivotal role in world history from Classical Antiquity into the twentieth century.
Daily Life In Late Antiquity
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Author : Kristina Sessa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-09
Daily Life In Late Antiquity written by Kristina Sessa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with History categories.
This book introduces readers to lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE.
Food And Society In Classical Antiquity
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Author : Peter Garnsey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-04-22
Food And Society In Classical Antiquity written by Peter Garnsey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-22 with History categories.
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in antiquity.
Ancient Theatre And Performance Culture Around The Black Sea
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Author : David Braund
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Ancient Theatre And Performance Culture Around The Black Sea written by David Braund and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with History categories.
Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.