TY - JOUR AU - Aleksidze, Nikoloz PY - 2017/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Stephen H. Rapp Jr., Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes, Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature JF - KADMOS JA - kadmos VL - IS - 7 SE - Reviews DO - 10.32859/kadmos/7/424-434 UR - https://kadmos.iliauni.edu.ge/index.php/kadmos/article/view/238 SP - 424-434 AB - <p>Stephen H. Rapp Jr., Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes, Caucasia and<br />the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. Farnham:<br />Ashgate, 2014, 513 pp.<br />Stephen H. Rapp’s recent monograph provides a detailed study of early<br />medieval Georgian historical literature. Apart from a thorough historical,<br />literary and archaeological contextualisation, Rapp provides a rigorous<br />textological study of this controversial corpus. Rapp’s primary mission is to<br />reconstruct hypothetically the early stages and layers of late antique Georgian<br />historiography, which has allegedly been stripped from its original Sasanian<br />cloth and has survived only in early medieval and indeed pro-Byzantine<br />rewriting. Although in many ways debatable, Rapp’s hypothesis is an important<br />step towards the identification of late antique Georgian writing and a possible<br />solution to the perennial question of where and why late antique Georgian<br />historical writing disappeared, only to reemerge in its Bagratid guise.</p> ER -