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, Porphyry, 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]

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References

  1. Terian 1980, p. 175.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Terian 1980, p. 176.
  6. 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.

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