Movses Khorenatsi
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Movses Khorenatsi was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians.
A painting of Movses Khorenatsi by Hovnatan Hovnatanian (1730–1801)
Movses depicted in a fourteenth-century Armenian manuscript
Movses Khorenatsi painting in book Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians (1908)
A bust of Khorenatsi at the Matenadaran
Herodotus
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Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the
Movses Khorenatsi
…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 Armenia before its conversion to Christianity. Approximately…
A Roman copy (2nd century AD) of a Greek bust of Herodotus from the first half of the 4th century BC
Romanticised statue of Herodotus in his hometown of Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum, Turkey