About the Contributor(s): Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of twelve books in philosophy and two volumes of poetry. He is a member of the International Academy of Philosophy and of The Academy of Sciences in Armenia, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce, United Kingdom.
About the Contributor(s): Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of twelve...
Arpine Khatchadourian, Roy Arthur Swanson, Haig Khatchadourian
The Armenian folk epic David of Sassoun was performed and transmitted orally for over one thousand years before a variant was discovered and transcribed in 1873. The publication of this variant marks the beginning of a long period of discoveries of other variants. The fifty variants collected by1936 are the source of the epic's unified text. The action of the epic is centered on the preservation of the House of Sassoun, or freedom from invaders. The oaths taken by heroes create conflicts of loyalties that work against this central concern. The curse, another form of the oath, leads to the...
The Armenian folk epic David of Sassoun was performed and transmitted orally for over one thousand years before a variant was discovered and transc...
