IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1604: Rustaveli: A 12th-Century Georgian Poet and Thinker
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Bert Beynen, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia |
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Moderator/Chair: | Donald Rayfield, Department of Russian, Queen Mary University, London |
Paper 1604-a | Shota Rustaveli's Philosophy of Friendship: Aristotelian or Georgian? (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Philosophy |
Paper 1604-b | Reinterpretation and Renewal of the Concept of Love from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Language and Literature - Other, Philosophy, Theology |
Paper 1604-c | The Meaning of Vepx-i in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther's Skin (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Other |
Abstract | Beynen contrasts Aristotle's conception of friendship - a friend is 'another self', - with Rustaveli's, who describes friends who are each other's opposite initially, but then develop into a teacher-pupil relation. Magarotto concludes on the basis of translations from the Hebrew and Persian, and of Georgian miniatures, that vepxi should be translated as 'leopard' or 'panther', and not 'tiger'. Khintibidze discusses the divine reinterpretation of the human emotion of love, characteristic not only for late medieval Europe, but also earlier, for Shota Rustaveli's poem The Man in the Panther Skin. |