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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">steps</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Шаги/Steps</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Shagi / Steps</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2412-9410</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2782-1765</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-225-233</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">steps-176</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СРЕДНИЕ ВЕКА И НОВОЕ ВРЕМЯ. РЕЦЕПЦИЯ АНТИЧНОЙ ТРАДИЦИИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>MIDDLE AGES AND NEW TIME. RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL TRADITION</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Greek tragedians in ancient and medieval Armenia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Greek tragedians in ancient and medieval Armenia</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6349-2389</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мурадян</surname><given-names>Г. С.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Muradyan</surname><given-names>G. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Гоар Саркисовна Мурадян, доктор филологических наук, старший научный сотрудник, зав. Отделом</p><p>Отдел переводной литературы</p><p>0009; пр-т Маштоца, д. 53; Ереван</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Gohar S. Muradyan, Dr. Sci. (Philology), Senior Researcher, Head of The Department</p><p>Department of Translated Literature</p><p>0009; Mashtots Ave., 53; Yerevan</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">gohar_muradyan@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">Институт древних рукописей им. Месропа Маштоца (Матенадаран)<country>Армения</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran)<country>Armenia</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2024</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>02</day><month>02</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>225</fpage><lpage>233</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Мурадян Г.С., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Мурадян Г.С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Muradyan G.S.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/176">https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/176</self-uri><abstract><p>   1. Греческая надпись, найденная в Армавире (Aрмения), написанная вероятно во II в. до н. э. письмом, схожим с папирусным курсивом, содержит фрагмент трагедии, напоминающий по стилю Еврипида. 2. Плутарх пишет, что армянский царь Артавазд II (55–34 до н. э.) писал трагедии. Он также рассказывает, что после сражения при Каррах в 53 г. до н. э. Красс был обезглавлен и его голову привезли в Армению и бросили в зал, в качестве головы Пенфея, когда при дворе того же царя Артавазда трагический актер исполнял отрывок из «Вакханок» Еврипида. 3. Фабула утраченной трагедии Еврипида «Дочери Пелия» является материалом одного из «опровержений» (ἀνασκευή) в частично переводном древнеармянском учебнике риторики, написанном на основе Прогимнасм Афтония Антиохийского (конец IV в.) во второй половине V в. 4. «Искусство грамматики» Дионисия Фракийского было переведено на армянский во второй половине V в. Между VI и XVII вв. появился десяток армянских комментариев на этот труд. Комментаторы отмечают связь трагедии с изобретателем лозы Дионисом, ямбический метр, которым она писалась, а также то, что само слово означает «козлиная песня». 5. Ученый автор XI в. Григор Магистрос несколько раз упоминает Еврипида. В дохристианской Армении в период эллинизма отмечен интерес к греческому театру. Средневековые свидетельства довольно скудны. Исключением является Григор Магистрос, упоминающий греческие мифы и литературу, в том числе драматургов, демонстрируя свою эрудицию.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>   1. А Greek inscription found in Armavir (Armenia) written probably in the 2nd c. BC in a script close to papyrus cursive, contains a fragment from a tragedy similar in style to Euripides. 2. Plutarch writes that the Armenian king Artavazd (Artavasdes) II (55–34 BC) wrote tragedies. He also tells that after the battle of Carrhae in 53 BC Crassus was beheaded and his head was taken to Armenia and cast into the hall, as the head of Pentheus, where, at the court of Artavazd, a tragic actor was singing a part of the Bacchae of Euripides. 3. The plot of Euripides’ lost tragedy The Daughters of Pelias is the subject matter of one of the “refutation” exercises (ἀνασκευή) in the old Armenian rhetorical handbook Book of Chreia — in part a translation from the second half of the 5th c., based օn the Progymnasmata of Aphthonius of Antioch (late 4th c.). 4. The Art of Grammar by Dionysius Thrax was translated into Armenian in the 2nd half of the 5th c. Between the 6th and 17th centuries, about a dozen of Armenian commentaries on this work were written. The commentators mention the connection of tragedy with Dionysus, the inventor of wine, the iambic meter characteristic of tragedy, and that the word itself means “goat-song”. 5. While there was a noticeable interest in Greek theatre during the Hellenistic period of pre-Christian Armenia, there are few medieval testimonies regarding this matter in medieval times. The learned author Grigor Magistros (11th c.) is an exception: he mentions Euripides several times.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>греческая драма</kwd><kwd>надпись</kwd><kwd>Красс</kwd><kwd>«Вакханки» Еврипида</kwd><kwd>древнеармянское руководство по риторике</kwd><kwd>«Дочери Пелия» Еврипида</kwd><kwd>Дионисий Фракийский</kwd><kwd>перевод</kwd><kwd>комментарий</kwd><kwd>Григор Магистрос</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Greek drama</kwd><kwd>inscription</kwd><kwd>Crassus</kwd><kwd>Bacchae of Euripides</kwd><kwd>Armenian rhetorical handbook</kwd><kwd>The Daughters of Pelias of Euripides</kwd><kwd>Dionysius Thrax</kwd><kwd>translation</kwd><kwd>commentary</kwd><kwd>Grigor Magistros</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Adonts, N. (1915). Dionisii Frakiiskii i armianskie tolkovateli [Dionysius Thrax and Armenian commentators]. 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