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	'''Socrates of Constantinople''', also known as '''Socrates Scholasticus''',~~<sup>[]</sup>~~ 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. 380: the date of his death is unknown. 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. 380: the date of his death is unknown. 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' teachers, noted in his prefaces, were the grammarians Helladius and Ammonius, who came to Constantinople from Alexandria, where they had been pagan priests. A revolt, accompanied by an attack on the pagan temples, had forced them to flee. This attack, in which the [[Serapeum]] was vandalized and its library destroyed, is dated about 391.		Socrates' teachers, noted in his prefaces, were the grammarians Helladius and Ammonius, who came to Constantinople from Alexandria, where they had been pagan priests. A revolt, accompanied by an attack on the pagan temples, had forced them to flee. This attack, in which the [[Serapeum]] was vandalized and its library destroyed, is dated about 391.
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	== The ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' ==		== The ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' ==
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	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. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] (1.1). It relates in simple [[Medieval Greek\|Greek]] language what the Church experienced from the days of [[Constantine I (emperor)\|Constantine]] to the writer's time. Ecclesiastical dissensions occupy the foreground, for when the Church is at peace, there is nothing for the church historian to relate (7.48.7). In the preface to Book 5, Socrates defends dealing with [[Arianism]] and with political events in addition to writing about the church.		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. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] (1.1). It relates in simple [[Medieval Greek\|Greek]] language what the Church experienced from the days of [[Constantine I (emperor)\|Constantine]] to the writer's time. Ecclesiastical dissensions occupy the foreground, for when the Church is at peace, there is nothing for the church historian to relate (7.48.7). In the preface to Book 5, Socrates defends dealing with [[Arianism]] and with political events in addition to writing about the church.

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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==
	*Theresa Urbainczyk, ''Socrates of Constantinople'', [[University of Michigan Press]], Ann Arbor 1997 ISBN 1-472-10737-2		*Theresa Urbainczyk, ''Socrates of Constantinople'', [[University of Michigan Press]], Ann Arbor 1997 ISBN 1-472-10737-2

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		'''Socrates of Constantinople''', also known as '''Socrates Scholasticus''',<sup>[]</sup> 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. 380: the date of his death is unknown. 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' teachers, noted in his prefaces, were the grammarians Helladius and Ammonius, who came to Constantinople from Alexandria, where they had been pagan priests. A revolt, accompanied by an attack on the pagan temples, had forced them to flee. This attack, in which the [[Serapeum]] was vandalized and its library destroyed, is dated about 391.

		That Socrates of Constantinople later profited by the teaching of the [[sophist]] [[Troilus (sophist)\|Troilus]] is not proven. No certainty exists as to Socrates' precise vocation, though it may be inferred from his work that he was a layman.

		In later years he traveled and visited, among other places, [[Paphlagonia]] and [[Cyprus]] (''Historia Ecclesiastica'' 1.12.8, 2.33.30).

		== The ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' ==
		{{Wikisourcelang\|el\|Εκκλησιαστική Ιστορία (Σωκράτη Σχολαστικού)\| Historia Ecclesiastica}}
		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. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] (1.1). It relates in simple [[Medieval Greek\|Greek]] language what the Church experienced from the days of [[Constantine I (emperor)\|Constantine]] to the writer's time. Ecclesiastical dissensions occupy the foreground, for when the Church is at peace, there is nothing for the church historian to relate (7.48.7). In the preface to Book 5, Socrates defends dealing with [[Arianism]] and with political events in addition to writing about the church.

		Socrates' account is in many respects well- balanced. His membership of the minority [[Novatianism\|Novatian]] church possibly enables him to take up a relatively detached approach to developments in the Great Church. He is critical for example of St. John Chrysostom. He is careful not to use hyperbolic titles when referring to prominent personalities in Church and State.

		Socrates asserts that he owed the impulse to write his work to a certain Theodorus, who is alluded to in the [[proemium]] to the second book as "a holy man of God" and seems therefore to have been a monk or one of the higher clergy. The contemporary historians [[Sozomen]] and [[Theodoret]] were combined with Socrates in a sixth-century compilation, which has obscured their differences until recently, when their individual portrayals of the series of Christian emperors were distinguished one from another and contrasted by Hartmut Leppin, ''Von Constantin dem Großen zu Theodosius II'' (Göttingen 1996).

		The ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' was first edited in Greek by [[Robert Estienne]], on the basis of ''Codex Regius'' 1443 (Paris, 1544); a translation into Latin by Johannes Christophorson (1612) is important for its variant readings. The fundamental early modern edition, however, was produced by [[Henri Valois\|Henricus Valesius]] (Henri Valois) (Paris, 1668), who used the ''Codex Regius'', a Codex Vaticanus, and a Codex Florentinus, and also employed the indirect tradition of [[Theodorus Lector]] (''Codex Leonis Alladi''). The new critical edition of the text is edited by G.C. Hansen, and published in the series ''Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller'' (Berlin:Akademie Verlag) 1995.

		==Translations ==

		The reception of Socrates' work in early Armenian is significant, including an abridged version and a full translation.

		An English translation of his work can be found in the ''[[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]]''. This is [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.html available online].

		More recently Socrates' History has been published in four bilingual volumes by Pierre Maraval in the ''[[Sources Chrétiennes]]'' collection.

		An English translation is available as an [http://www.munseys.com/book/7649/ECCLESIASTICAL_HISTORY,_THE e-book from Munseys.com] .

		==External links==
		*[http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/30_20_0380-0440-_Socrates_Sozomenus_Scholasticus.html Greek Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca with analytical indexes]

		==Notes==

		==Further reading==
		*Theresa Urbainczyk, ''Socrates of Constantinople'', [[University of Michigan Press]], Ann Arbor 1997 ISBN 1-472-10737-2

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