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- Title
TESTI IN CONTESTO: EUSEBIO, QUADRATO-ARISTIDE E GLI INIZI DELL'APOLOGETICA CRISTIANA.
- Authors
ANDREI, OSVALDA
- Abstract
Eusebius' Chronici Canones (hereafter ChCan) and his Historia Ecclesiastica (hereafter HE) are extremely valuable sources for historians of antiquity, and often offer information for which Eusebius remains the sole source. Yet when it is so it must also be noted that: a) the chronological placement of data may differ between the two works, implying either the use of different sources, or at least a process of functional transformation of the event by Eusebius himself as the event transitions from the mere chronographic framework of one work to historical narrative of the other; and b) that Eusebius' data, in becoming canonical tradition, eventually fed the creation of a narrative core that would increasingly impose itself as real history and chronology. The case of the founders of the so-called Christian "apologetics", Quadratus and Aristides -- that Eusebius dates in ChCan and HE as occurring in different moments of Hadrian's reign -- is an example of how the chronographic construction of the ChCan can in turn become in the HE a source that Eusebius uses so as to sustain a specific memory of Christian origins. Neither one nor the other of Eusebius' two chronologies of Quadratus and Aristides should be taken as providing us with a true chronology. Rather, it should be pointed out that it is possible to date Aristides to the early years of Antoninus Pius' reign, and, given the author's Athenian connections, to argue for a significant influence of the Panhellenion's language and ideas in Aristides's project of defining and communicating Christian identity.
- Subjects
EUSEBIUS, Bishop of Emesa, ca. 300-ca. 359; CHRONICI Canones (Book); HISTORIA Ecclesiastica (Book)
- Publication
Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 2, p351
- ISSN
1827-7365
- Publication type
Literary Criticism