The author’s depth of knowledge and almost lyrical style and spontaneity of speaking about such topics of interest to Armenians from their early embrace of the West, control of the photoengraving industry in the United States and the abundance of Armenian illuminated bibles and what they signified and the need for non academic history books that tell a swashbuckling tale of Armenian history and its heroes all comes to life here. As Plato’s Socratic dialogues were to Greek cultural history so to the Boyajian Armenian seminars are to the social history of these ancient people that opens up with the first historian, Herodotus, in his book The Histories describing first contact with Armenia, its people, culture, equestrian talents and dramatic geography 2,500 years ago.

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