Eusebios Scholasticos
Eusebios Scholastikos ( Greek Εὐσέβιος ὁ σχολαστικός ) was a Greek legal scholar ( Greek σχολαστικός " advocate ") and writer. He lived in the eastern part of the Roman Empire in the late 4th and early 5th centuries AD . He was a student of the sophist and rhetorician Troilos of Side . During his time there was the rebellion of the general Gainas , who rebelled against the emperor Arkadios and his rulers from 399 and was defeated in 400 by the magister militum Fravitta .
Eusebius wrote an epic poem in four books about these events , which apparently was an important source, even if it probably had panegyric intentions in favor of the emperor Arcadios. Eusebios' younger contemporary Socrates Scholastikos writes about the work in his church history :
"Εἰ δέ τῳ φίλον ἀκριβῶς μαθεῖν τὰ ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ πολέμῳ γεγενημένα, ἐντυγχανέτω τῇ Γαϊνιάδι τοῦ σχολαστικοῦ Εὐσεβίου, ὃς ἐφοίτα μὲν τηνικαῦτα παρὰ Τρωίλῳ τῷ σοφιστῇ, αὐτόπτης δὲ τοῦ πολέμου γενόμενος ἐν τέτρασι βιβλίοις ἡρωικῷ μέτρῳ τὰ γενόμενα διηγήσατο · καὶ προσφάτων ὄντων τῶν πραγμάτων σφόδρα ἐπὶ τοῖς ποιήμασιν ἐθαυμάσθη. ”
“If someone would like to find out more about the events of that war against him ( Gainas is meant ), may he look up the Gainiás of the lawyer Eusebios, who at that time was a student of the sophist Troilos and as an eyewitness to this war the events in an epic poem in Described the scope of four books. And since the events were not far back then, one was very impressed by these verses. "
However, nothing has survived from the poem. Apart from Socrates, only the Byzantine church historian Nikephoros Kallistos ( Church history 13.6; 13th century) quotes it , who does not know it from his own experience, but only from the mention of Socrates.
literature
- Otto Seeck : The letters of Libanius in chronological order . Leipzig 1906, p. 146
- Wilhelm Enßlin : Troilos 3rd In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII A, 1, Stuttgart 1939, Col. 615 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eusebios Scholasticos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eusebius Scholasticus; Εὐσέβιος ὁ σχολαστικός |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek lawyer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century |