The man in the panther's skin
a romantic epic
by Shota Rustaveli
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This epic by the Georgian poet Rust'haveli has been the book of a nation for 700 years. It was expected that the text, based on a Persian original and reflecting Georgia's position as a crossroads between east and west, would be memorized by all female members of the country's aristocracy.
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Translations into English, Georgian Epic poetry, Poetry, Knights and knighthood, Aphorisms and apothegms, Translations into Hebrew, Georgian Epic literature, English poetry, Translations from Georgian, Textual Criticism, Georgian poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Russian Epic poetryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 75 editions?
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The man in the panther's skin: a romantic epic
2001, Curzon in association with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
in English
- [New ed].
0947593438 9780947593438
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The lord of the panther-skin
1977, State University of New York Press
in English
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0873953207 9780873953207
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Edition Notes
"Bibliographical note": p. 265-269.
"Groups of references": p. 269-273.
Edited by Sir J. O. Wardrop.
First Georgian edition, Tiflis, 1712.
The original epic was probably based on a cycle of poems relating to the legendary hero, Tariel. cf.Karst, J. Litt. géorg. chrét. 1934. p. 130-133.
Appendix: I. Professor Marr's rendering of the introductory quatrains.
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