ABSTRACT
The chronological radius of The Life of the Kings is quite unlike any other monument of pre-modern Georgian historiography. Commencing with the remote ethnogenesis of the K‛art‛velians and their Caucasian neighbours, this text emphasises the history of the eastern Georgian monarchy and concludes on the threshold of King Mirian’s conversion to Christianity in the early fourth century. The entire source is therefore devoted to pre-Christian times. It is the only component of K‛art‛lis c‛xovreba to take up Caucasia’s “pagan” past.1
