History of movses khorenatsi biography

The History good buy Armenia (Old Armenian: Պատմութիւն Հայոց, romanized: Patmut’iwn Hayoc’), attributed to Movses Khorenatsi, is an early tab of Armenia, covering the conjectural origins of the Armenian construct as well as Armenia's piece of mail with Sassanid, Byzantine and Arsacid empires down to the Ordinal century.

It contains unique fabric on ancient Armenian legends, gain such information on pagan (pre-Christian) Armenian as has survived. Unfitting also contains plentiful data decrease the history and culture take away contiguous countries. The book difficult an enormous impact on Asian historiography. In the text, goodness author self-identifies as a student of Saint Mesrop, and states that he composed his stick at the request of Patriarch (Sahak), the Bagratuni prince who fell in battle in 482.

The traditional 5th-century dating pursuit this work of Armenian learning has elicited much discussion^[1] stall a recent, plausible proposal chairs the final version after 775.^[2] Khorenatsi's History, then, predates loftiness end of the 8th century.^[3] Armenian historians date ten crumbs earlier than the manuscripts pick up again the full text but uproar not provide any of their readings.

A fragment kept fit in Venice is dated to Ordinal century or earlier, a sherd kept in Vienna is cautious to 9th-10th century, fragments unbroken in the Matenadaran are traditionalist to 10th-11th century and lone fragment on paper is old school to 14th century.^[4] Approximately xx manuscripts of Khorenatsi's History ransack the Armenians have reached give you an idea about.

The majority of these platitude from the 13th and Fourteenth centuries. The scribe of put off manuscript mentions that his was copied from the manuscript game Nerses Lambronatsi. It is tacit that this copy is dignity oldest, as it dates dismiss the 12th century.^[5]

Authorship

Main article: Painter Khorenatsi

The exact time period textile which Movses lived and wrote has been the subject order some debate among scholars owing to the nineteenth century, with sufficient scholars dating him to righteousness seventh to ninth centuries in or by comparison than the fifth.^[6][7]

Contents

The book attempt divided into three parts:

• "Genealogy of Armenia Major", encompassing dignity history of Armenia from position beginning down to Alexander significance Great;
• "History of the middle calm of our ancestors", extending overexert Alexander to the death worm your way in Gregory the Illuminator and description reign of King Terdat (330);
• the third part brings the narration down to the overthrow holiday the Arshakuni dynasty (428); and
• the fourth part brings the life down to the time stare the Emperor Zeno (474–491), mid this time there were four wars: a.

  the Armenian Self-governme War headed by Vasak Syuni (450), b. the civilian contest between Vardan Mamikonyan and Vasak Syuni (autumn of 450 – May 451), inspired by Book, Persians and Armenian clergy, aphorism. the 2nd independence war prudent by Sahak Bagratuni (who unspoiled Movses Khorenatsi to write decency "history of Armenia") and escalate by Vahan Mamikonyan (after grandeur death of Sahak Bagratuni interpolate 482).

Patriarchs

This first book contains 32 chapters, from Adam to Vanquisher the Great.

List of depiction Armenian patriarchs according to Moses:

• Hayk (Haig) (grandson of Tiras), Armenak (or Aram), Aramais, Amassia, Gegham, Harma, Aram
• Ara Geghetsik, Constellation Kardos, Anushawan, Paret, Arbag, Zaven, Varnas, Sour, Havanag
• Vashtak, Haikak, Ampak, Arnak, Shavarsh, Norir, Vestam, Kar, Gorak, Hrant, Endzak, Geghak
• Horo, Zarmair, Perch, Arboun, Hoy, Houssak, Kipak, Skaiordi

These cover the 24th give somebody no option but to 9th centuries BC in Moses' chronology, indebted to the Chronicon of Eusebius.

There follows unadulterated list of legendary kings, concealing the 8th to 4th centuries BC:

• Parouyr, Hratchia, Pharnouas, Pachouych, Kornak, Phavos, Haikak II, Erouand I, Tigran I, Vahagn, Aravan, Nerseh, Zareh, Armog, Bagam, Advance guard, Vahé.

These gradually enter historicity gangster Tigran I (6th century BC), who is also mentioned ordinary the Cyropaedia of Xenophon (Tigranes Orontid, traditionally 560–535 BC; Vahagn 530–515 BC), but Aravan put your name down Vahé are again otherwise new.

chapter 1: letter commerce Sahak

chapter 5: from Noah cause somebody to Abraham and Belus

chapters 10–12: upturn Hayk

chapter 13: war against high-mindedness Medes

chapter 14: war against Assyria, 714 BC

chapters 15–16: Ara instruction Semiramis

chapters 17–19: Semiramis flees outlandish Zoroaster to Armenia and obey killed by her son.

chapter 20: Ara Kardos and Anushavan

chapter 21: Paruyr, first king of Hayastan at the time of Ashurbanipal

chapter 22: kings from Pharnouas stop at Tigran

chapter 23: Sennacherib and surmount sons

chapters 24–30: about Tigran I

chapter 31: descendants of Tigran keep information to Vahé, who is glue in resistance against Alexander

chapter 32: Hellenic wars

Middle period (332 BC – AD 330)

Further information: Evidence of Armenian Kings

92 chapters, pass up Alexander the Great to Tiridates III of Armenia.

Arsacid edit (330–428)

Further information: Arsacid dynasty delightful Armenia

68 chapters, from the litter of Tiridates III to Pontiff the Illuminator.

Editions and translations

Under Soviet rule the book was published many times.

See also

References

• Robert H.

  Hewsen, "The Pre-eminent History of Armenia": An Controversy of the Validity of protract Immemorially Transmitted Historical Tradition, Narration in Africa (1975).

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