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David the Invincible (or David the Philosopher) was a neoplatonist philosopher of the 6th century.[1]
David the Invincible depicted in medieval manuscript of Definition of Philosophy (Matenadaran, Ms. 1746, c. 1280)The 1985 statue of David the Invincible in Yerevan
David was a pupil of Olympiodorus in Alexandria. His works, originally written in Greek, survive in medieval Armenian translation, and he was given the byname of "invincible" (ClassicalArmenian: Անյաղթ; reformed: Անհաղթ, Anhağt) in the Armenian tradition, which considers David himself an Armenian.
Due to confusion with other authors called David and due to an abundant body of medieval legend, almost nothing is known with certainty about the historical David. Armenian tradition makes him a native of Taron,[2] but this is not substantiated in contemporary sources and may be due to conflation with another person.[3] He was active in Alexandria in Byzantine Egypt, known as an expert in Aristotle's Physics.[4] He supposedly received the byname "invincible" for his exceptional oratory and argumentative skills.[2] David is said to have returned to his native Armenia later in life, where he was active as a teacher, but he came into conflict with the Armenian church and ultimately died in exile in Haghbat.[2]
Of the number of works attributed to him, many are pseudepigraphic or doubtful. The works which can be attributed to him with certainty or at least with some plausibility are not scholarly treatises but propedeutic (introductory) handbooks for use in teaching beginners. They were composed in Greek but survive only in Armenian translation. Philologically, these translations are important representatives of the "Hellenizing" tradition in Armenian literature (Yownaban Dproc‘) of the 6th to 8th centuries.[5]
The David Anhaght Medal, the highest-ranking medal granted by the Armenian Academy of Philosophy, is named after him.[6]David the Invincible (Դավիթ Անհաղթ - David Anhaght, Armenfilm) is a 1978 film by Levon Mkrtchyan.
Referencesedit
^Tara L. Andrews. Identity, Philosophy, and the Problem of Armenian History in the Sixth Century // History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East / Edited by Philip Wood. — Oxford University Press. — 2013. — P. 36
^ abcHacikyan, Agop J. (2000). The heritage of Armenian literature. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press. p. 288. ISBN0814328156.
^Valentina Calzolari: David et la tradition arménienne. In: Valentina Calzolari, Jonathan Barnes (ed.): L’œuvre de David l’Invincible et la transmission de la pensée grecque dans la tradition arménienne et syriaque, Leiden 2009, S. 15–36 (22 f.); Gohar Muradyan (ed.): David the Invincible: Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge, Leiden 2015, S. 1 f. Leendert Gerrit Westerink (ed.): Prolégomènes à la philosophie de Platon, Paris 1990, p. XXXVII.
^Barnes, textes réunis et édites par Valentina Calzolari et Jonathan (2009). L'œuvre de David l'Invincible et la transmission de la pensée grecque dans la tradition arménienne et syriaque. Leiden: Brill. ISBN9789004160477. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
^Valentina Calzolari: Aux origines de la formation du corpus philosophique en Arménie: quelques remarques sur les versions arméniennes des commentaires grecs de David. In: Cristina D’Ancona (ed.): The Libraries of the Neoplatonists, Leiden 2007, 259–278, here: 261–264; Valentina Calzolari: David et la tradition arménienne. In: Valentina Calzolari, Jonathan Barnes (ed.): L’œuvre de David l’Invincible et la transmission de la pensée grecque dans la tradition arménienne et syriaque, Leiden 2009, 15–36, here: 15–20.
^"Grand Medal of David the Invincible". International Progress Organization.
Bibliographyedit
Gertz, Sebastian (2017), Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic, Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN9781350136441
Topchyan, Aram (2010), David the Invincible, Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics, Brill, ISBN9789004187191
Sanjian, Avedis K. (1986), David Anhaght', the 'Invincible' Philosopher, Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars' Press, ISBN1555400671
Barnes, Jonathan (2009), L'oeuvre de David l'Invincible et la transmission de la pensée grecque dans la tradition arménienne et syriaque, Brill, ISBN9789004160477(in French)
Benedetta, Contin (2011). La version arménienne des œuvres grecques de David l'Invincible. Recherches sur la formation du vocabulaire épistémologique arménien(PDF) (Thesis). University of Geneva. (in French)
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