Late Antique Historiography

History of Taron

Title(s):
  • History of Taron
  • պատմութիւն չորրորդ հայոց եւ ժամանակագրութիւն
    (patmut‘iwn čorrord hayoc‘ ew žamanakagrut‘iwn, Fourth history of the Armenians and chronography)
  • Պատմութիւն տարաւն
    (patmut‘iwn tarawn, History of Tarōn)
  • պատմութիւն
    (patmut‘iwn, History)
Author:
Period covered:
Early 4th c. (the conversion of Armenia)
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Secular history (ethnic history)
  • Secular history (local history)
Remarks:
Pseudo-John Mamikonean claims to have translated Zenob’s history from Syriac into Armenian and continued it until his own time. It is possible that this text was invented by Pseudo-John Mamikonean (Greenwood 2014: 378)
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Langlois (1867) Collection des historiens anciens et modernes de l’Arménie. Volume One. Paris: 333-355.
Fragments:
  • Uxtanes of Sebastia, History 1.57, 76 [Arzoumanian 1988: 69-70, 93-94]
  • Uxtanes of Sebastia, History 1.57.13 and 1.76.3 [Hovannisyan - Madoyan 2012: 492, 509]
  • Pseudo-John Mamikonean, History [Abrahamyan 1941: 33, 64-65, 288; Avdoyan 1993: 55, 68-69, 162]
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Sources:
Bibliography:
  • A.G. Abrahamayan (1941) Patmut‘iwn Taronoy. Yerevan.
  • Z. Arzoumanian (1988) Bishop Ukhtanes of Sebastia: History of Armenia. Part One: History of the patriarchs and kings of Armenia. Fort Lauderdale.
  • L. Avdoyan (1993) Pseudo-Yovhannēs Mamikonean, the History of Tarōn (Patmut‘iwn Tarōnoy): Historical investigation, critical translation, and historical and textual commentaries (Suren D. Fesjian academic publications, 6). Atlanta.
  • M.-F. Brosset (1870) Deux historiens arméniens: Kiracos de Gantzac, XIIIe S., Histoire d’Arménie, Oukhtanès d’Ourha, Xe S., Histoire en trois parties. Saint Petersburg.
  • M. Emin (1860) ‘Zenob Glak, matenagir 4rd daru’. Čṙak‘ał: 30-34.
  • M. Emin (1859) ‘Zenob Glak, matenagir 4rd daru’. Čṙak‘ał: 167-174, 300-304.
  • T. Greenwood (2014) '"Imagined past, revealed present": A reassessment of the History of Taron (Patmut'iwn Taronoy)'. In: Mélanges Jean-Pierre Mahé, ed. A. Mardirossian - A. Ouzounian - C. Zuckerman (Travaux et Mémoires, 18). Paris: 377-392.
  • P. Hovannisyan, G. Madoyan (2012) 'Uxtanēs Episkopos: Patmut‘iwn hayoc‘. In: Matenagirk‘ Hayoc‘ Volume Fifteen: Tenth-century Historiography. Book II. Ant‘ilias.
  • E. Prud’homme (1863) ‘Zeno de Klag: Histoire de Daron’. Journal asiatique 6.2: 401-475.
  • G. Xalat’ean (1893) Zenob Glak. Vienna.
  • M. Yovhannesean (1912) Zenob Glak: Handep ardiakan K‘nnadatut‘ean. Istanbul.
  • H. Yovhanniseanc’ (1894) ‘Zenob Glakay nor orinak mě’. Handes Amsorya 8: 239-240.