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Vakhtang I Gorgasali ((グルジア語:ვახტანგ I გორგასალი)) or Vakhtang the Wolf Head〔Wolf head, Georgian transliteration from Persian Gorgaslan, Gurgaslan, or Gorgasar〕 (c. 439 or 443 – 502 or 522), of the Chosroid dynasty, was a king of Iberia, natively known as Kartli (eastern Georgia) in the second half of the 5th and first quarter of the 6th century. He led his people, in an ill-fated alliance with the Byzantine Empire, into a lengthy struggle against Sassanid Iranian hegemony, which ended in Vakhtang's defeat and weakening of the kingdom of Iberia. Tradition also ascribes him reorganization of the Georgian Orthodox Church and foundation of Tbilisi, Georgia’s modern capital.〔Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts'', p. 320. Peeters Publishers, ISBN 90-429-1318-5〕 Dating Vakhtang's reign is problematic. Professor Ivane Javakhishvili assigns to Vakhtang’s rule the dates c. 449–502 and Professor Cyril Toumanoff the dates c. 447–522. Furthermore, Toumanoff identifies Vakhtang with the Iberian king Gurgenes known from Procopius' ''Wars of Justinian''.〔Toumanoff, Cyril (1963). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', pp. 368–9. Georgetown University Press.〕 Vakhtang is a subject of the 8th or 11th century ''vita'' attributed to Juansher which intertwines history and legend into an epic narrative, hyperbolizing Vakhtang's personality and biography. This literary work has been a primary source of Vakhtang’s image as an example warrior-king and statesman, which has preserved in popular memory to this day. He emerged as one of the most popular figures in Georgia's history already in the Middle Ages〔Rapp (2003), ''passim''.〕 and has been canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church〔Machitadze, Archpriest Zakaria (2006), ("The Holy King Vakhtang Gorgasali (†502)" ), in (''The Lives of the Georgian Saints'' ). ''Pravoslavie.Ru''. Retrieved on April 19, 2009.〕 as The Holy and Right-Believing King Vakhtang ((グルジア語:წმინდა დიდმოწამე მეფე ვახტანგი)) and is commemorated on November 30 (O.S.: December 13).〔 ==Name== According to the ''Life of Vakhtang Gorgasali'', the king was given at his birth an Iranian name ''Varazkhosrovtang'', rendered in Georgian as ''Vakhtang''.〔Thomson, Robert W. (1996), ''Rewriting Caucasian History'', p. 156. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-826373-2〕 The name may indeed be derived from Iranian *''warx-tang'' (''vahrka-tanū'')—"wolf-bodied", a possible reflection of the wolf cult in ancient Georgia.〔Gamkrelidze, Tamaz; Ivanov, Vyacheslav; Winter, Werner (transl. by Nichols, Johanna; 1995), ''Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: a reconstruction and historical analysis of a proto-language and a proto-culture'', p. 416. M. de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-009646-3〕 Beginning in the late 13th century, numerous Georgian princes and kings took the name Vakhtang.〔 Toumanoff observes that the name Vakhtang has no Classical equivalent and infers that the king’s sobriquet Gorgasal—given to Vakhtang because of the shape of the helmet he wore—was rendered by the 6th-century Roman historian Procopius as Gurgenes ((ギリシア語:Γουργένης)). Toumanoff's identification of Vakhtang with Gurgenes has not been universally accepted.〔Greatrex, Geoffrey (1998), ''Rome and Persia at war, 502–532'', p. 129. Francis Cairns, ISBN 0-905205-93-6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vakhtang I of Iberia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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