Movses khorenatsi biography
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Movses Khorenatsi (ca. 410–490s AD; Armenian: ՄովսէսԽորենացի, pronounced [mɔvˈsɛs χɔɾɛnɑˈtsʰi], also written as Movses Xorenac‘i and Moses of Khoren, Moses of Chorene, and Moses Chorenensis in Latin sources) was a prominent Armenian historian from the late antique period and the author of the History of the Armenians.
Movses's History of the Armenians was the first attempt at a universal history of Armenia and remains the only known general account of early Armenian history.
Movses khorenatsi biography
It traces Armenian history from its origins to the fifth century, during which Movses claimed to have lived. His history had an enormous impact on Armenian historiography and was used and quoted extensively by later medieval Armenian authors.
He is called the "father of Armenian history" (patmahayr) in Armenian, and is sometimes referred to as the "Armenian Herodotus." Movses's history is also valued for its unique material on the old oral traditions in Armeni