Moses of Chorene (c. 410–490s AD) was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians. Movses identified himself as a young disciple of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. Moreover, he claimed to have written his history at the behest of Prince Sahak of the Bagratuni dynasty. The quotes below are from the book mentioned above:
“So then it is clear to us all that our kings and other forefathers were negligent toward scholarship and unconcerned with the life of reason. For although we are a small country and very’ restricted in numbers, weak in power, and often subject to another’s rule, yet many manly deeds have been performed in our land worthy of being recorded in writing; nonetheless not one of those undertook to have them written down…
But it seems to me that just as nowadays, so also in the past the Armenians were not enamored of scholarship or oral songs. Therefore it is superfluous for us to say anything more about those unlettered, lazy, and barbarous men…
Arshak the Great, king of the Persians and Parthians, who was Parthian by race, having rebelled against the Macedonians, they say, ruled over all the East and Assyria. He killed Antiochus, the king in Nineveh, and brought into subjection under himself the whole universe. He made his brother Valarshak king over this land of Armenia, thinking it convenient in this way to render his own rule unshakable…”
There are facts linking Kyiv Rus to the Parthian Empire too. Like the Royal Hat found in a barrow near Kyiv >
The author of this article made a supposition that the name Arsacae means Aryan Saka/ Scythians >
It appears that the facts about Tigranes the Great of Armenia support the supposition.
The coin of Arsaces II:
‘Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus’ book explores the topics mentioned in the article.
