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Capitolo | Parrot’s Journey to Mount Ararat: Some Observations

Parrot’s Journey to Mount Ararat: Some Observations

Abstract

In the year 1829 Friedrich Parrot (1792-1841), professor of physics at the University of Dorpat (modern Tartu), first climbed Mount Ararat. With him were the Armenian deacon Khachatur Abovian (the ‘father of modern Armenian literature’), two Russian soldiers and two local Armenian peasants. His account of the Journey to Ararat, published in German in the year 1834, is considered a classic of travel literature. The present papers analyses its debt both to the literary genre and to ancient sources, especially to the Geography of the ancient Greek historian and geographer Strabo (ca. 63 BCE-ca. 23 CE).


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 11 Gennaio 2021 | Accettato: 05 Febbraio 2021 | Pubblicato 12 Luglio 2021 | Lingua: en

Keywords Travel literatureAbovianStraboParrotArarat


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