Sosiano Hiérocles

Sosiano Hiérocles (fl. 303) foi um aristocrata e titular de cargos públicos romano tardio. Serviu como presidente (praeses) na Síria sob Diocleciano na década de 290. Terá sido feito vigário de algum distrito, provavelmente da Diocese do Oriente (o Oriente incluía aqui a Síria, Palestina e, então, o Egito) até 303, quando foi transferido para a província da Bitínia e é devido às suas actividades anticristãs na região que ele é lembrado na actualidade. Foi, como refere o Cambridge Ancient History, "um dos perseguidores mais zelosos"^[1] dos cristãos. Neste período, Hiérocles escreveu "Amante da Verdade" (em grego: Φιλαλήθης), uma crítica ao Cristianismo. Amante da Verdade é lembrado como a primeira ocorrência da comparação, popular e polémica pagã tardia, entre o santo homem Apolónio de Tiana e Jesus Cristo.

Bibliografia editar

Fontes antigas editar

Eusébio de Cesareia
- Contra Hieroclem.

Conybeare, F. C., trans. Philostratus. The life of Apollonius of Tyana, the Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius. 2 vols. London: Heinemann, 1912. Online at the Internet Archive: vols. 1, 2. Accessed 2 February 2010. Eusebius' treatise at 2.482–605.

De Martyribus Palestinae.

McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, trans. Martyrs of Palestine. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Accessed June 9, 2009.
Cureton, William, trans. History of the Martyrs in Palestine by Eusebius of Caesarea, Discovered in a Very Antient Syriac Manuscript. London: Williams & Norgate, 1861. Accessed September 28, 2009.

Lactâncio
- Divinae Institutiones

Brandt, Samuel and Georg Laubmann, eds. L. Caeli Firmiani Lactanti Opera Omnia vol. 1. Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 19. Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1890. Online at the Internet Archive. Acesso 30-1-2010.
Fletcher, William, trans. The Divine Institutes. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at New Advent and CCEL. Acesso 30-1-2010.

De Mortibus Persecutorum (On the Deaths of the Persecutors).

Brandt, Samuel and Georg Laubmann, eds. L. Caeli Firmiani Lactanti Opera Omnia vol. 2.2. Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 27.2. Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1897. Online at the Internet Archive. Acesso 30-1-2010.
Fletcher, William, trans. The Divine Institutes. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at New Advent and CCEL. Acesso 30-1-2010.

Fontes modernas editar

Barnes, Timothy D. "Sossianus Hierocles and the Antecedents of the Great Persecution". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 80 (1976): 239–52.
Barnes, Timothy D. Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Bowman, Alan K. "Diocletian and the First Tetrarchy, A.D. 284–305". In The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XII: The Crisis of Empire, edited by Alan Bowman, Averil Cameron, and Peter Garnsey, 67–89. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Clarke, Graeme. "Third-Century Christianity." In The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XII: The Crisis of Empire, edited by Alan Bowman, Averil Cameron, and Peter Garnsey, 589–671. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Frend, W. H. C. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1981 [rept. of Basil Blackwell, 1965 ed.].
Jones, A. H. M., R. Morris, and R. Martindale. The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971–92.
Louth, Andrew. "Eusebius and the Birth of Church History". In The Cambridge history of early Christian literature, edited by Frances Margaret Young, Lewis Ayres, and Andrew Louth, 266–74. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Simmons, Michael Bland. "Graeco-Roman Philosophical Opposition". In The Early Christian World, edited by Philip Francis Esler, 2.840–868. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Referências

↑ Bowman, 86; cf. Clarke, 658 n. 168.

[1] Bowman, 86; cf. Clarke, 658 n. 168.

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