Episode 4 - The Battle of Avarayr. Led by Vardan Mamigonian (or Vartan Mamikonian), the Armenian forces fought for the freedom of religion and identity against their Persian overlords in this battle in 451 AD. Find out why Shakespeare would have loved it, and why the battle had to be fought in the first place. Get updates and more on www.facebook.com/podmootiun/.

Episode 3 - Tigran the Great. The Greeks have Alexander the Great, the Russians have Peter the Great, the Armenians have Tigran the Great. Not only did he fight the Romans and Parthians, he built an empire that stretched from Iran to Israel (Caspian to the Mediterranean) and made Armenia a political and military force to be reckoned with in the last hundred years before Christ. Not bad for a prince who spent most of his life as a hostage. Plus, find out his connection to one of Rome’s greatest scourges. Get updates and more on https://www.facebook.com/podmootiun/.

Episode 2 - Moses Khorenatsi. The Father of Armenian History. A young man from a tiny village in Armenia is sent to the center of learning in the ancient world, Alexandria in Egypt, only to return to Armenia to find his sponsors gone and his country turned against him politically. But it’s what happens nearly a half century later that makes this an impressive story. Get updates and more on https://www.facebook.com/podmootiun/.

Episode 1: Hayk Nahapet

The story of Hayk and the beginning of the Armenian people.

Father Tadeos Barseghyan and Peter Hajinian are two friends who found that every time they got together, they’d end up talking about Armenian history. There must be other people that also talk about Armenian history, they said. So they started this podcast.

"Pod-mootiun" is a pun based on the Armenian word for “history”— “badmutiun.”