Hellenizing School
The Hellenizing School (Classical Armenian: Յունաբան դպրոց Yunaban dprots, reformed spelling: Հունաբան դպրոց, Hunaban dprots), sometimes called the Philhellene[1] or Hellenophile School,[2][3] is a name given by modern scholars to the loosely-connected early medieval Armenian scholars who translated or based their works on Greek texts.
The term is used, primarily, for Armenian translators of the 6th-8th centuries who translated Greek philosophical and other texts. Unlike Golden Age (5th century) authors, their writings largely retain the Greek syntax.[1] Greek authors whose texts were translated include Dionysius Thrax, Plato, Aristotle, Porphurios, Philon of Alexandria, Nemesius, Aratus, Gregory of Nyssa and texts such as Hermetica.[4][5]
Some Armenian authors, most notably Anania Shirakatsi and David the Invincible, wrote original works, drawing extensively from Greek sources and are thus considered part of the Hellenizing School.[4][6]
See also
- Graeco-Arabic translation movement, an analogue with Arab scholars
References
- Terian 1980, p. 175.
- Muradyan, Gohar (2014). "The Hellenizing School". In Calzolari, Valentina (ed.). Armenian Philology in the Modern Era: From Manuscript to Digital Text. Leiden: Brill. p. 321. ISBN 9789004270961.
...the Hellenizing (or Hellenophile) School.
- Weitenberg, J. J. (1997). "Eusebius of Emesa and Armenian Translations". In Frishman, Judith; van Rompay, Lucas (eds.). The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. p. 168. ISBN 9789068319200.
- Mathews, Jr., Edward G. (2008). "Hellenizing School (Arm. Yunaban Drpoc; ca 570 - ca 730)". In Keyser, Paul T.; Irby-Massie, Georgia L. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs. Routledge. p. 365. ISBN 9781134298020.
- Terian 1980, p. 176.
- Terian 1980, p. 179.
Bibliography
- Terian, Abraham (1980). "The Hellenizing School: Its Time, Place, and Scope of Activities Reconsidered". In Nina Garsoïan; Thomas F. Mathews; Robert W. Thomson (eds.). East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. pp. 175-186.
Further reading
- Manandian, Hakob (1928). Յունաբան դպրոցը եւ նրա զարգացման շրջանները [The Hellenizing School and the (chronological) Limits of its Activity] (in Armenian). Vienna: Mekhitarist Press.
- Mooradian, A. N. (1964). "Հունաբան դպրոցի ժամանակագրության հարցի շուրջը". Patma-Banasirakan Handes (in Armenian) (3): 91–106.
- Acharian, Hrachia (1949). "Յունաբան հայերէն [Hellenizing Armenian]". Sion (in Armenian). Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem: 102–104.
- Mouradian, G. S (1993). "Մովսես Խորենացու "Պատմության" լեզվի հունաբան շերտը [The Hellenizing Layer of Lexics in the "History" of Movses Khorenatsi]". Patma-Banasirakan Handes (in Armenian) (1–2): 91–114.