The Knight in the Panther's Skin
by Shota Rustaveli
12th century Georgia. Three knights. The epic that made a nation.
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Written in the 12th century at the court of Queen Tamar of Georgia, this epic poem is the foundational text of Georgian civilization — its Homer, its Shakespeare, its national identity in verse. Three knights, a queen in captivity, loyalty and love and courage across a world that spans from Arabia to India. Rustaveli wrote it in a Georgian that is still readable to modern Georgians, which is its own miracle of cultural continuity. The most important literary work from the Caucasus and one of the great unread epics of world literature. A dispatch from inside a medieval civilization at its apex.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Caucasus
- Voice
- Written by a Caucasus author
- Themes
- chivalryepic poetry