![]() ![]() ![]() The purpose of the history is to continue the work of Eusebius of Caesarea (1.1). The history covers the years 305-439, and experts believe it was finished in 439 or soon thereafter, and certainly during the lifetime of Emperor Theodosius II, i.e., before 450. In later years he traveled and visited, among other places, Paphlagonia and Cyprus ( Historia Ecclesiastica 1.12.8, 2.33.30). No certainty exists as to Socrates' precise vocation, though it may be inferred from his work that he was a layman. That Socrates of Constantinople later profited by the teaching of the sophist Troilus is not proven. This attack, in which the Serapeum was vandalized and its library destroyed, is dated about 391. A revolt, accompanied by an attack on the pagan temples, had forced them to flee. Socrates' teachers, noted in his prefaces, were the grammarians Helladius and Ammonius, who came to Constantinople from Alexandria, where they had been pagan priests. Even in ancient times nothing seems to have been known of his life except what can be gathered from notices in his Historia Ecclesiastica ("Church History"), which departed from its ostensible model, Eusebius of Caesarea, in emphasizing the place of the emperor in church affairs and in giving secular as well as church history. Socrates of Constantinople, also known as Socrates Scholasticus, not to be confused with the Greek philosopher Socrates, was a Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret, who used his work he was born at Constantinople c. ![]()
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