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This book is the winner of the 2023 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies, awarded by National Association for Armenian Studies & Research
Though references to Greek myths will hardly surprise the reader of western European literature, the reception history of Greek mythology is far richer and includes such lesser known traditions as the Armenian one. Greek myths were known to medieval Armenians through translations of late classical and early Christian writings and through the original works of Armenian authors. However, accessing them in their Armenian incarnations is no easy task. References to them are difficult to find as they are scattered over the vast medieval Armenian written corpus. Furthermore, during the process of translation, transmission, retelling, and copying of Greek mythical stories, Greek names, words, and plot details frequently became corrupted.
In this first-of-its-kind study, Gohar Muradyan brings together all the known references to ancient Greek myths (154 episodes) in medieval Armenian literature. Alongside the original Armenian passages and, when extant, their Greek originals, she provides annotated English translations. She opens the book with an informative introduction and concludes with useful appendices listing the occurrences of Greek gods, their Armenian equivalents, images, altars, temples, and rites, as well as Aesop’s fables and the Trojan War.
Though references to Greek myths will hardly surprise the reader of western European literature, the reception history of Greek mythology is far richer and includes such lesser known traditions as the Armenian one. Greek myths were known to medieval Armenians through translations of late classical and early Christian writings and through the original works of Armenian authors. However, accessing them in their Armenian incarnations is no easy task. References to them are difficult to find as they are scattered over the vast medieval Armenian written corpus. Furthermore, during the process of translation, transmission, retelling, and copying of Greek mythical stories, Greek names, words, and plot details frequently became corrupted.
In this first-of-its-kind study, Gohar Muradyan brings together all the known references to ancient Greek myths (154 episodes) in medieval Armenian literature. Alongside the original Armenian passages and, when extant, their Greek originals, she provides annotated English translations. She opens the book with an informative introduction and concludes with useful appendices listing the occurrences of Greek gods, their Armenian equivalents, images, altars, temples, and rites, as well as Aesop’s fables and the Trojan War.
Price: $146.00
Pages: 442
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
29 September 2022
ISBN: 9789004519794
Format: Hardcover
Gohar Muradyan, PhD (1986) and DSc (2005), is Head of the Department of Translated Literature at Matenadaran (Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Armenia). She has published numerous articles and several monographs on translated literature and the Hellenizing School of Armenian translators, as well as critical editions of old Armenian translations from Greek, including Physiologus: The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique (Peeters, 2004), Grecisms in Ancient Armenian (Peeters, 2012), and David the Invincible, Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge (Brill, 2014). She has also translated, in collaboration with Aram Topchyan, many Greco-Roman classics into modern Armenian (Homer, Euripides, Aristophanes, Longus, Virgil, Ovid, Marcus Aurelius et al.).