The Man in the Panthers Skin (The Epic Recorded)
by Shota Rustaveli, Marjory Scott Wardrop
Category: Social Science

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.