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EVAGRIUS (c. 536–600)

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EVAGRIUS (c. 536–600) , surnamed SCROLASTICUS, See also:Church historian, was See also:born at Epiphania in Coele–Syria. His surname shows him to have been an See also:advocate, and it is supposed that he practised at See also:Antioch. He was the legal adviser of See also:Gregory, See also:patriarch of that See also:city, whom he successfully defended at See also:Constantinople against certain serious charges. Through this connexion he was brought under the See also:notice of the See also:emperor Tiberius See also:Constantine, who honoured him with the See also:rank of quaestorian; See also:Maurice Tiberius made him See also:master of the rolls. His See also:influence and reputation were so considerable that on the occasion of his second See also:marriage a public festival was celebrated in his See also:honour, which was interrupted by a terrible See also:earthquake. Evagrius's name has been preserved by his Ecclesiastical See also:History in six books, extending over the See also:period from the third See also:general See also:council(that of See also:Ephesus, 431) to the See also:year 593. It thus continues the See also:work of See also:Eusebius, See also:Socrates, See also:Sozomen and See also:Theodoret. Though not wholly trustworthy, and often very credulous, this work is on the whole impartial, and appears to have been compiled from See also:original documents, from which many valuable excerpts are given. It is particularly helpful to the student of the history of See also:dogma during the 5th and 6th centuries, while the See also:political history of the See also:time is by no means neglected. Evagrius made use of the writings of See also:Eustathius, See also:John of Epiphania, John See also:Malalas, See also:Procopius, and (possibly) See also:Menander See also:Protector. The best edition of the History is that of L.

Parmentier and J. Bidez (See also:

London, 1898), which contains the Scholia; it is also included in See also:Migne's Patrologia Graeca, lxxxvi. There is an See also:English See also:translation in See also:Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library. See See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen See also:Litter atur (1897) ; F. C. See also:Baur, See also:Die Epochen der kirchlichen Geschichtsschreibung (1852); L. Jeep, Quellenuntersuchungen zu den griechischen Kirchenhistorikern (1884).

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