Table Of ContentGreek Texts and Armenian Traditions
Trends in Classics –
Supplementary Volumes
Edited by
Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos
Scientifi c Committee
Alberto Bernabé · Margarethe Billerbeck
Claude Calame · Philip R. Hardie · Stephen J. Harrison
Stephen Hinds · Richard Hunter · Christina Kraus
Giuseppe Mastromarco · Gregory Nagy
Theodore D. Papanghelis · Giusto Picone
Kurt Raafl aub · Bernhard Zimmermann
Volume 39
Greek Texts
and Armenian
Traditions
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Edited by
Francesca Gazzano, Lara Pagani, and Giusto Traina
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Table of Contents
Preface IX
Armenian Transliteration Table XI
I. Problems of Method
Moreno Morani
Ancient Armenian Translation from Greek Texts: Questions of Method 3
Giusto Traina
Some Observations on the Armenian Pseudo-Callisthenes 23
Alessandro Orengo
Eznik of Kołb as a Translator of Methodius of Olympus 31
Valentina Calzolari
The Transmission and Reception of the Greek Cultural Heritage in Late Antique
Armenia: The Armenian Translations of the Greek Neoplatonic Works 47
II. History and Historiography
Gianfranco Gaggero
Armenians in Xenophon 73
Francesca Gazzano
Croesus’ Story in the History of Armenia of Movsēs Xorenac‘i 83
Francesco Mari
Cyrus the Great in Movsēs Xorenac‘i, Patmut‘iwn Hayoc‘: Telescoping
the King 115
Anahide Kéfélian
The Roman Army and the Transmission of Latin Loan Words in Old
Armenian 143
Federico Frasson
Armenia and Armenians in Asinius Quadratus’ Παρθικά 163
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III. Biblical, Christian and Byzantine Literature
Theo Maarten van Lint
Among Others: Greek in Context in the Letters of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni
(eleventh century) 197
Armenuhi Drost-Abgaryan
The Reception of Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 264–339) in Armenia 215
Alessandro Capone
Pseudo-Athanasius, De incarnatione Christi contra Apollinarium: Some Critical
Remarks 231
Lia Raffaella Cresci
The Hexaemeron of George of Pisidia and the Armenian Version: Textual
Investigations 241
IV. Philological, Linguistic and Lexical Problems
Giulia D’Alessandroand Lara Pagani
Homer in the Armenian Tradition 257
Chiara Aimi
Appendix – Codex M 437 272
Irene Tinti
Grecisms in the Ancient Armenian Timaeus 277
Andrea Scala
Greek, Syriac and Armenian in Contact: Lexical and Textual Outcomes 299
Rosa Ronzitti
Etymological Hypotheses Between Armenian and Indo-Iranian: New Proposals
and Remarks 311
Index of passages
Greek texts 329
Latin texts 337
Table of Contents VII
Armenian texts 338
Babylonian texts 341
Egyptian texts 341
Syriac texts 341
Epigraphic texts 341
List of Contributors 343
Preface
We are delighted to present the Proceedings of the Genoa conference of 21 and
22 October 2013¹, which was held with the aim of resuming a tradition of schol-
arship that focused on the Classical heritage in the Eastern traditions. Organized
in Italy in the years 1980/1990, these early seminars were held under the pivotal
guidance of the renowned linguist and Armenologist Giancarlo Bolognesi (1923–
2005). Various language areas of the Christian and Muslim East were taken into
consideration, thereby involving Classical philologists and Orientalists in a fruit-
ful scientific dialogue and often marking significant progress in our knowledge of
authors such as Aristotle, Aelius Theon, or the Pseudo-Callisthenes.
Several years later, two participants who had contributed to these events –
Moreno Morani, himself a pupil of Bolognesi, and Giusto Traina – proposed a
revitalisation of the spirit of the meetings, focusing on Classical, Christian, and
Byzantine Greek texts in the Armenian tradition. Their suggestion was sponsored
and supported by the Doctoral Schools of Genoa (“Scienze dell’Antichità”) and
Paris-Sorbonne (ED 1, “Mondes antiques et médiévaux”), by the Genoese Depart-
ments DAFIST and DIRAAS, and by the Parisian UMR 8167 (“Orient et Méditer-
ranée”). Finally, a contribution was provided by the Association Internationale
des Études arméniennes. The scientific board was composed of Professors Paul
Demont, Francesca Gazzano, Charles de Lamberterie, Franco Montanari, Moreno
Morani, and Giusto Traina.
Classical philologists, with the support of ancient historians, benefited from
the opportunity to engage in fruitful dialogue with linguists and Armenologists,
jointly aspiring to “total philology”. In spite of the “natural” rejection of Oriental
texts by the average Classical scholar, who is typically uneasy when faced with
the Unknown and haunted by the Demon of Over-Specialization, we succeeded in
introducing a spirit of mutual and interdisciplinary cooperation.
The methodological problems are addressed in Part I, introduced by Moreno
Morani, whose brief history of the studies is followed by a series of specific exam-
ples. Case studies (Pseudo-Callisthenes, Eznik of Kołb) are offered by Giusto
Traina and Alessandro Orengo; Valentina Calzolari presents an important survey
of the Armenian translation of the Neoplatonic works.
The studies of Part II mark important progress in the historical and histo-
riographical disciplines. After the remarks on the “Armenian chapters” of Xen-
ophon’s Anabasis by Gianfranco Gaggero, a new file in the studies on Movsēs
Xorenac’i is opened. This heralds an innovative perspective on the subject, in
1 A survey of the conference has been drawn up by M. Donato in Maia 66/1, 2014, 200–205.
