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active in the 1st half of the 5 cent. AD; Greek Christian historian; advocate Constantinople. Works History of the church in 9 books, covering the period 323–422, meant to be a continuation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius [7] of Caesarea. Commissioned by Cassiodorus , parts of this history were translated into Latin by Epiphanius [3] Scholasticus ( Historia tripartita; also with excerpts from Sozomenus; edited by W. Jacob/R. Hanslik, CSL 71, 1952). Manuscripts Of the 10 manuscripts that are extant, only three are independent textual witnesses descending from…

2nd half of the 2nd cent. AD; Greek Christian author. Works Two works have been transmitted; one apologia of Christianity and a treatise on the resurrection. Manuscripts All of the approximately 20 manuscripts are derived from a single manuscript, Parisinus gr. 451 (the so-called Arethas Codex), either directly or indirectly. Editions The first editions date from the 16th cent. The philological studies of J.K. Theodor von Otto, Adolf von Harnack, Oscar von Gebhardt and Eduard Schwartz at the end of the 19th cent. form the basis for the more rece…

b. after AD 381; d. after AD 439; Greek Christian historian; lawyer in Constantinople. Works History of the church covering the period 305–439, meant to be a continuation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius [7] of Caesarea. Commissioned by Cassiodorus , parts of this history were translated into Latin by Epiphanius [3] Scholasticus ( Historia tripartita; also with excerpts from Sozomenus; eds. W. Jacob, R. Hanslik, CSL 71, 1952). Manuscripts The ten extant Greek manuscripts descend from two hyparchetypes. In addition, the Syriac, Latin, and particularly the …