The Hellenizing school (in Classical Armenian : Յունաբան Դպրոց, romanized Yownaban Dproc̕), also called the Philhellenic School, was an Armenian intellectual movement of the Early Middle Ages (5th–8th centuries). It was characterized by significant attention to Greek texts and notable translation work from Greek to Armenian, often performing literal translations from Greek. It substantially influenced the Armenian language.
The authors belonging to this school were involved in creating words and grammatical categories heavily inspired by Greek in Armenian. The translations carried out by the members of this school are interesting for philologists and modern researchers, as they preserved, in some cases, Greek texts lost in their original versions.
Some Armenian authors writing directly in Greek, such as David the Invincible or Anania of Shirak, are considered to have been part of this school.