Acta Archelai

The Acta Archelai from otherwise unknown church father Hegemonius are a front 350 incurred antimanichäischer novel, which was originally written in Greek, completely but only in Latin is preserved.

It contains the fictitious disputes between a large church bishop named Archelaos and the religious founder Mani , with Archelaos emerging as the victor. The work is a document of the defensive struggle of the old church against Manichaeism and was previously an important source for this itself.

Web links

• Adolf Jülicher : Archelaos 40) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 455.