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Yervand Margaryan

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2026

The Body as God’s Judgement: Ordeal Somatics and Political Theology in the Narrative of Agathangelos

This article analyzes the confrontation between Gregory the Illuminator and King Tiridates III in Agathangelos’ History of Armenia through the lens of ordeal as a mechanism of legitimation and an instrument of political theology. The central argument holds that Agathangelos structures his narrative according to the pri...

Yervand Margaryan · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

Between Gods and Empires: Commagene, Parthia, and the Personal Cosmology of the Orontid Dynasty

The hierothesion of Antiochus I on Mount Nemrud is conventionally interpreted through the lens of political theology – as a frontier ruler's calculated synthesis of Greek and Iranian religious traditions designed to legitimise dynastic power between Rome and Parthia. The dominant scholarly tradition, spanning from Ther...

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