Agathangelos

Agathangelos ( Ագաթանգեղոս Armenian, ancient Greek Ἀγαθάγγελος, " bearer of good news " ) is the pseudonym of the author of resulting in the second half of the 5th century history of the Christianization of Armenia by Gregory the Illuminator and the conversion of King Trdats III. , The first written in Armenian and was later translated into Syriac, Coptic, Arabic and Georgian language. Agathangelos claims to be an eyewitness to the events described at the beginning of the 4th century.

Although partly contradict strongly the individual editors, the work is the main source of this era. The author is undoubtedly Armenian and pretends the king's scribes Trdat III. to be, on whose behalf he had written as a contemporary happening ( according to his chronology of the years 301-330 ).