Gelasios of Kyzikos

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As Gelasius of Cyzicus usually the author of a will of late antiquity church history refers to the end of the 5th century was written (to 480) in Greek.

This name of the author is based on a mistake which the Byzantine scholar and patriarch Photios I made and which crept into the editio princeps of 1599. The author of the church history claims that he is the son of a presbyter from Cyzicus , but gives no information about his name. The therefore anonymous author wrote his work apparently in response to a discussion that had arisen with some Miaphysites and who had invoked the Council of Nicaea . In order to counter this, the author compiled information from several church histories accessible to him in order to reflect the true resolutions of the council.

His presentation is divided into three books. The main source for the anonymous was the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius of Caesarea ; he himself claims to have also studied the acts of the council. In addition, he also used other writings, including Theodoret and a lost work, the author of which Philipp von Side can perhaps be considered. Despite many shortcomings, for example some of the documents given are very dubious, the work also provides some important information.

Editions and translations

  • Günther Christian Hansen (Ed.): Anonymous Church History (Gelasius Cyzicenus, CPG 6034) . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002.
  • Günther Christian Hansen (Ed.): Anonymous from Cyzicus. Church history . Greek-German. 2 volumes. Brepols, Turnhout 2008.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Greek text according to Hansen's edition is here ( memento of the original from October 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.2 MB) can be viewed free of charge. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbaw.de
  2. ↑ Hansen (2002), pp. IX-XI.
  3. ↑ See Hansen (2002), p. LIV, general information on the sources: ibid., P. XLIff.
personal data
SURNAME Gelasios of Kyzikos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author of a late antique church history
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century
DATE OF DEATH 5th century or 6th century