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Socrates of Constantinople
BornSocrates
380
Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire
(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died439 (aged c. 59)
OccupationHistorian
PeriodTheodosian dynasty

Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – after 439), also known as Socrates Scholasticus (Greek: Σωκράτης ὁ Σχολαστικός[1]), was a 5th-century Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret.[2]

He is the author of a Historia Ecclesiastica ("Church History", Ἐκκλησιαστική Ἱστορία) which covers the history of late ancient Christianity during the years 305 to 439.

  1. ^ The traditional epithet "Socrates Scholasticus" is not well-founded in any early tradition, according to his most recent editor, Theresa Urbainczyk, Socrates of Constantinople: Historian of Church and State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) 1997. ISBN 0-472-10737-2. On the title pages of some surviving manuscripts he is designated scholastikos ("schooled").
  2. ^ Potter, David (2015). Constantine the Emperor. Oxford University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-19-023162-0. Socrates of Constantinople, Greek historian [...]

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