Agathangelos

Agathangelos (in Classical Armenian: Ագաթանգեղոս Agatʿangełos, in Greek Ἀγαθάγγελος "bearer of good news" or angel, c. 4th^[1] or 5th^[2] centuries AD), appropriately so named, was a supposed secretary of Tiridates III, King of Armenia, under whose name there has come down a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, who died about 332.^[3]^[4] It purports to exhibit the deeds and discourses of Gregory, and has reached us in Armenian and in Greek. The text of this history has been considerably altered, but it has always been in high favor with the Armenians. Von Gutschmid maintains that the unknown author made use of a genuine life of St. Gregory, also of a history of his martyrdom and of that of Saint Rhipsime and her companions. Historical facts are intermingled in this life with legendary or uncertain additions, and the whole is woven into a certain unity by the narrator, who may have assumed his significant name from his quality of narrator of "the good news" of Armenia's conversion. It has been translated into several languages, and Greek and Latin translations are found in the Acta Sanctorum Bollandistarum, tome viii.

According to Agathangelos, he was tasked by Tiridates III to write about his father Khosrov II of Armenia and his reign period. Until the 19th century, based on this fact, scholars believe that Agatangelos lived in the 4th century. However further detailed research of his writing has demonstrated that Agathangelos lived and worked in the 5th century and was not able to be Tiridates III's secretary.

Sources

Agathangelos, History of St. Gregory and the Conversion of Armenia
Agathangelos, History of the Armenians, Robert W. Thomson, State University of New York Press, 1974

↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica: a new survey of universal knowledge: Volume 2- 1961, p. 383
↑ The Armenians Anne Elizabeth Redgate - 2000 - Page 122
↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica: a new survey of universal knowledge: Volume 2- 1961, p. 383
↑ Who's who in Christianity - Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok - 1998 - p. 113 - Gregory the Illuminator (c. 240-332)

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V—IX centuries

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X—XIV centuries

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