Late Antique Historiography

History of Shapuh and Julian

Title(s):
  • History of Shapuh and Julian
  • գործք Շապհոյ եւ Յուլիանու
    (Gorck῾ Šaphoy ew Yulianoy, The deeds of Shapuh and Julian)
Author:
Period covered:
Campaign of 362-363?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
The language of the work could conceivably be Persian or Greek. Moses of Khoren seems to presume Greek. By indicating Greece as place of writing, he may mean the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
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Bibliography:
  • R.W. Thomson (1981) Moses Chorenensis, Patmut‘iwn Hayots‘ (History of the Armenians): A facsimile reproduction of the 1913 Tiflis edition. New York.
  • R.W. Thomson (2006) Moses Khorenats‘i, History of the Armenians: Translation and commentary on the literary sources. Second edition. New York. (Review of 1978).