Faustus of Byzantium

'Faustus of Byzantium also Faustus the Byzantine, Armenian: Փաւստոս Բուզանդ, was an Armenian historian of a 5th century. Faustus' History of the Armenians also requested as Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk exists in four "books", beginning with Book 3 "Beginning" & ending with Book 6 "Ending", which appears to be due to the hold of a later editor of the surviving manuscript. The History describes events from the military, socio-cultural and political life of 4th-century Armenia. Pavstos describes in bit the reigns of Arsaces Arshak II and his son Papas Pap, and portrays the Mamikonians as defenders par excellence of Armenia.

The identity of Pavstos and the referent of Buzand carry on unsolved. Buzand is either interpreted as meaning "the Byzantine" or, alternatively, "composer of epics". if the latter interpretation is true, then Buzandaran could be translated as "Epic Histories." Faustus' ostensible Byzantine origin was placed under doubt by another early Armenian historian, Ghazar Parpetsi, who believed that the history attributed to Faustus was of too low variety to realize been provided by someone educated in Byzantium. This opinion was divided up up by most later Armenian historians. Scholars have long speculated about Faustus' ethnic background if he was Armenian, Greek or of another ethnicity and the original Linguistic communication of his History.