Tradition and Innovation in the Cosmology of Anania Širakac‘i

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dc.title	Tradition and Innovation in the Cosmology of Anania Širakac‘i
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dc.description.abstract	Anania Širakac‘i was a 7th century AD Armenian mathematician trained in the Byzantine Empire whose works embrace treatises in various fields of science. Of the almost 30 texts attributed to him, most await investigation. His Cosmology is the focus of our research, and we highlight its elements of similarity with Greek tradition, in particular with St Basil’s Hexameron, and in the Armenian tradition, to which Anania brings novelty especially in his deeper understanding of astronomical phenomena. We suggest that this work, like Isidore’s De Natura Rerum, represents a new genre of Christian literature, and attempts to understand it through the meaning of Cosmos found in Aristotle’s De Mundo.
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dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-11-15
dc.dateAccepted	2018-06-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-05-21
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dc.subject	7th century AD
dc.subject	7th century AD
dc.subject	Anania Širakac‘i
dc.subject	Anania Širakac‘i
dc.subject	Armenia
dc.subject	Armenia
dc.subject	Cosmology
dc.subject	Cosmology
dc.subject	Tradition and innovation
dc.subject	Tradition and innovation

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Tradition and Innovation in the Cosmology of Anania Širakac‘i

Stephanie Pambakian University Saint Andrews, UK; Université de Genève, Suisse

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Anania Širakac‘i was a 7th century AD Armenian mathematician trained in the Byzantine Empire whose works embrace treatises in various fields of science. Of the almost 30 texts attributed to him, most await investigation. His Cosmology is the focus of our research, and we highlight its elements of similarity with Greek tradition, in particular with St Basil’s Hexameron, and in the Armenian tradition, to which Anania brings novelty especially in his deeper understanding of astronomical phenomena. We suggest that this work, like Isidore’s De Natura Rerum, represents a new genre of Christian literature, and attempts to understand it through the meaning of Cosmos found in Aristotle’s De Mundo.

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Nov. 15, 2018

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June 15, 2018

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May 21, 2018

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978-88-6969-280-2

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Keywords: Tradition and innovation • Armenia • Cosmology • Anania Širakac‘i • 7th century AD

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