Ἀρμενία - Armenia, ancient region covering modern Armenia and Eastern Turkey
A collection of texts on Ancient Armenia
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7 §2.11.1 after the Nile and Ganges, have their sources in the mountains of Armenia and are two thousand five hundred stades apart at their origin, 2 -1000
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7 §2.11.4 Semiramis quarried out a stone from the mountains of Armenia which was one hundred and thirty feet long and twenty-five feet wide -1000
Ovid, Art of Love §1.220 reeds: that’ll be Tigris with the long green hair. I make those Armenians, that’s Persia’s Danaan crown: that was a town in the hills -1000
Ovid, Metamorphoses §8.119 not be your mother! Spawn of cruel Syrtis! Savage cub of fierce Armenian tigress; — or Charybdis, tossed by the wild South-wind begot you! Can -1000
Ovid, Metamorphoses §15.75 cattle live on grass. But all the savage animals — the fierce Armenian tigers and ferocious lions, and bears, together with the roving wolves — -1000
Philostratus, Imagines §2.5.1 commemorating the victory over them. Rhodogoune and the Persians are conquering the Armenians who broke the treaty, on the occasion when Rhodogoune is said to -1000
Philostratus, Imagines §2.5.2 so listen. Rhodogoune is pouring a libation for her victory over the Armenians, and the artist's conception is of a woman praying. She prays -1000
Justin, History of the World §42.3 of men, who, after the death of Jason were wandering about, founded Armenia, from the mountains of which the river Tigris issues, at first -1000
Eusebius, Chronography §5 gods. As regards Belus, which translates into Greek as Dios and into Armenian as Aramazd, he split the darkness in two, separating heaven and earth -1000
Eusebius, Chronography §7 where they emerged [from the ship], it was the land of the Armenians . Now when [the people] heard all this, they offered sacrifices to [4 hits] -1000
Eusebius, Chronography §10 humankind. The ship continued on and stopped in the land of the Armenians . The inhabitants of that land were rewarded with a useful medicine [3 hits] -1000