Socrates Scholasticus

Socrates was a lawyer in Constantinople who continued Eusebius's church history from 305 to 439 in seven books. He drew on documents, on Rufinus, and on the testimony of older men, and he wrote with sympathy for Novatianists and with a wide interest in the affairs of the church and the empire. He is the first of the three continuators of Eusebius named in the Greek tradition.

Dates

b. ca. 380; wrote ca. 439-443 (approximate)

See or city

Constantinople

Region

Thrace

Also known as

Socrates of Constantinople

Notes

A lawyer (scholastikos) of Constantinople, educated by the grammarians Ammonius and Helladius, who had fled Alexandria. Dates rest on the History itself, which ends in 439.

Works

• Church HistoryHistoria ecclesiastica · ca. 439-443 · CPG 6028 (not yet checked)