Athenagoras of Athens

Athenagoras Atheniensis

Biography

Christian philosopher from Athens. One thing certain about him (according to Methodius of Olympus) is that shortly before 180, he wrote an apology for the Christian faith entitled The Embassy for the  Christians addressed to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. He is also credited with a treatise On the Resurrection of the Dead, transmitted under his name by the same manuscript Parisinus graecus 451, but some historians dispute his authorship. He may have been born around 130 and may have died towards the end of the second century, but these are only conjectures inferred from the sole mention of his Embassy by Methodius.

Works

• Supplicatio (2e éd.)

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Quotations

• [OBNIg]
• [JB] Ge 1:1-27
• [JB] Ge 1:4-8
• [JB] Ge 6:1-5
• [JB] Ps 50:13

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