Hovhannes Erznkatsi

An outstanding orator, he was the main speaker on the occasion of the conferring of knighthood on Hetoum and Thoros, sons of King Leon III, which was celebrated at Sis in 1284.

[2] Under the name of Hovhannes Pluz Yerznkatsi, many philosophical, natural scientific, cosmological, grammatical, interpretative, political, theological and other works have reached us, the number of which exceeds a hundred.

not only the phenomena of nature, but also the contradictions, inequalities and injustices that exist in social life, as well as birth and death, are the result of continuous movement and change.

Religious works, although at first glance they seem like ordinary poems with only a biblical theme, in reality they also reveal the wavering of the human mind, the multicolor of feelings, the great love of life and nature.

Here is man with his uncertain existence, thoughts occupying and tormenting the soul, with the anxiety of death, but also with love and longing to live, with a thirst for wisdom.

These serve the same purpose: to educate, enlighten the nation, cleanse the society of vices, eliminate the causes of evil: ignorance, illiteracy and bad manners.

Giving scientific explanations about nature and man, again evoking love and interest in learning and knowledge, Yerznkatsi notes that everything is transitory, temporary, has a beginning and an end, while wisdom is permanent and an inexhaustible source of enjoying the good of the world.

Expanding the boundaries of the admonitive verse, which gained a large volume in the Middle Ages, Yerznkatsi creates a new type of lyricism: a phylosophical, semantic poem, which, receiving a special size and content, reaches its perfection in the form of quatrains.