| 词条 | History of Armenia (book) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The History of Armenia ({{lang-hy|Պատմություն Հայոց}}, Patmut'yun Hayots) attributed to Movses Khorenatsi is an early account of Armenia, covering the legendary origins of the Armenian people as well as Armenia's interaction with Sassanid, Byzantine and Arsacid empires down to the 5th century. It contains unique material on ancient Armenian legends, and such information on pagan (pre-Christian) Armenian as has survived. It also contains plentiful data on the history and culture of contiguous countries. The book had an enormous impact on Armenian historiography. In the text, the author self-identifies as a disciple of Saint Mesrop, and states that he composed his work at the request of Isaac (Sahak), the Bagratuni prince who fell in battle in 482. Authorship{{Main|Moses Khorenatsi}}Until the 19th century most scholars accepted Movses's History as an authentic script. For example, Gibbon in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. 32) still accepted the 5th century date of Movses, on grounds that "his local information, his passions and his prejudices, are strongly expressive of a native and contemporary."[1] Alfred von Gutschmid (1876) showed the secondary nature of much of Moses' material, and current scholarship is divided on the issue of Moses' authorship of the work. According to Robert Thomson, "there are indications that the book itself was written after the 5th century. Not only does Movses use sources not available in Armenia at that time, he refers to persons and places attested only in the sixth or seventh centuries."[2]It is now thought that the current version we have could not have been written in the 5th century [1][3]ContentsThe book is divided into three parts:
PatriarchsThis first book contains 32 chapters, from Adam to Alexander the Great. List of the Armenian patriarchs according to Moses:
These cover the 24th to 9th centuries BC in Moses' chronology, indebted to the Chronicon of Eusebius. There follows a list of legendary kings, covering the 8th to 4th centuries BC:
These gradually enter historicity with Tigran I (6th century BC), who is also mentioned in the Cyropaedia of Xenophon (Tigranes Orontid, traditionally 560-535 BC; Vahagn 530-515 BC), but Aravan to Vahé are again otherwise unknown. chapter 1: letter to Sahak chapter 5: from Noah to Abraham and Belus chapters 10-12: about Hayk chapter 13: war against the Medes chapter 14: war against Assyria, 714 BC chapters 15-16: Ara and Semiramis chapters 17-19: Semiramis flees from Zoroaster to Armenia and is killed by her son. chapter 20: Ara Kardos and Anushavan chapter 21: Paruyr, first king of Armenia at the time of Ashurbanipal chapter 22: kings from Pharnouas to Tigran chapter 23: Sennacherib and his sons chapters 24-30: about Tigran I chapter 31: descendants of Tigran down to Vahé, who is killed in resistance against Alexander chapter 32: Hellenic wars Middle Period (332 BC - AD 330){{Further|List of Armenian Kings}}92 chapters, from Alexander the Great to Tiridates III of Armenia. Arsacid period 330-428{{Further|Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia}}68 chapters, from the death of Tiridates III to Gregory the Illuminator. Editions and translations
Under Soviet rule the book was published many times.
See also
References1. ^1 Robert K. Thomson, "Armenian Literary Culture through the Eleventh Century", in R.G. Hovahanissian (ed.), Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times (Volume 1, 2004) 2. ^Robert K. Thomson, "Armenian Literary Culture through the Eleventh Century", in R.G. Hovahanissian (ed.), Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times(Volume 1, 2004) 3. ^Rizvan Huseynov, "A MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CAUCASUS AS ANALYZED BY JEAN SAINT-MARTIN", in THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION (Volume 8 Issue 1-2, 2014) 4. ^Hakob Meghapart project - 1725 - 1750 5. ^Hakob Meghapart project - 1750 - 1775
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