David the Invincible, Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics: Critical Old Armenian Text with an English Translation, Introduction and Notes

233 Pages·2010·1.52 MB·English

by  Aram Topchyan

David the Invincible
Commentary on Aristotle’s
Prior Analytics
Philosophia Antiqua
A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy
PreviousEditors
J.H. Waszink†
W.J. Verdenius†
J.C.M. Van Winden
Editedby
K.A. Algra
F.A.J. De Haas
J. Mansfeld
C.J. Rowe
D.T. Runia
Ch. Wildberg
VOLUME122
Commentaria in Aristotelem Armeniaca
Davidis Opera
curantibus Valentina Calzolari et Jonathan Barnes
VOLUME2
David the Invincible
Commentary on Aristotle’s
Prior Analytics
Old Armenian Text with an
English Translation, Introduction and Notes
by
Aram Topchyan
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2010
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements.................................................... vii
TheCommentariainAristotelemArmeniacaProject................. ix
Introduction ........................................................... 1
ArmenianTextandTranslation....................................... 29
AppendixI.ParallelsfromRelevantTexts ............................ 133
AppendixII.AConciseDescriptionandTypicalExamplesof
MorphologicalandSyntacticalGrecisms .......................... 177
AppendixIII.LexicalGrecisms(NotIncludedintheGlossariesof
thisBook)HavingGreekEquivalentsinDavid’sOtherTreatises 185
Greek—Armenian—EnglishGlossary................................ 189
English—Armenian—GreekGlossary................................ 197
Armenian—Greek—EnglishGlossary................................ 205
AbbreviationsandLiterature.......................................... 213
IndexofPersonalNames .............................................. 221

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is my pleasant duty to express my gratitude to Prof. Valentina Cal-
zolari for including me in the two-phase Joint Research Project “The
Work of David the Invincible: the Diffusion of Neo-Platonic Thought
and the Spread of Neo-Platonic Texts in Ancient and Medieval Arme-
nia” between the Centre de recherches arménologiques at the University
of Geneva, the Departments of History of Ancient Philosophy at the
Universities of Geneva and Fribourg,and at the University of Paris IV-
Sorbonne,theDepartmentofHistoryattheErevanStateUniversity(in
thefirstphase),andtheInstituteofAncientManuscripts(Matenadaran),
Erevan (JRP AMPJO;IB-).This book has been pre-
pared for publication within the framework of that project. The sup-
port of the Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique is grate-
fullyacknowledged:withoutitthecarryingoutofthejointresearchand
thepreparationofthisbookwouldbeimpossible.Iamdeeplyindebted
to Prof. Jonathan Barnes for his careful reading of the manuscript and
numeroushelpfulsuggestions incontentandstyle. My heartfeltthanks
areduetotheBrillPublishersforacceptingthisbookforpublication.
AramTopchyan

THECOMMENTARIAIN
ARISTOTELEMARMENIACAPROJECT
TheEnglishTranslationofDavidtheInvincibile’sCommentaryonAris-
totle’s Prior Analytics by Aram Topchyan belongs to the series project
Commentaria in Aristotelem Armeniaca: DavidisOpera.This series will
contain five volumes dedicated to the commentaries on Aristotelian
logicwhichtraditionascribestoDavidtheInvincible(thcentury).The
essayswhichconstitutethefirstvolumedealwithvariousaspectsofthe
Davidian corpus and thus serve to introduce the series.1 The following
four volumes each present a separate work: the Prolegomena to Philos-
ophy, the commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge, the commentary on the
Categories, and the commentary on the Prior Analytics. Each of these
volumes includes a revised critical edition of the Armenian text, an
English translation, together with a comparison of the Armenian with
theunderlyingGreekmodelandsundrynotes.Theprojecthasfivechied
aims:
a) toidentifytherelationbetweentheArmeniantextsandtheoriginal
GreekversionsofDavid’sworks;
b) toassessthevalueoftheArmeniantranslationsfortheconstitution
oftheGreektext;
c) toanalyzethedifferencesbetweentheArmenianversionsandthe
Greek,andtoexaminethewaysinwhichtheArmeniantranslators
adaptedthetextstosuittheirnewreadership;
d) to give a close examination of the language of the Armenian ver-
sionsandoftheirtechniquesoftranslation;
e) to consider,moregenerally, the waysin whichGreekthought was
transmittedtoArmenia,andthecirculationofideasandthecultural
exchangesbetweenEastandWestinlateAntiquity.
1 V.Calzolari–J.Barnes(eds),L’œuvredeDavidl’Invincibleetlatransmissiondela
penséegrecquedanslatraditionarménienneetsyriaque(CAA.DavidisOpera),Leiden–
Boston(PhilosophiaAntiqua).