Athenagoras of Athens

Athenagoras of Athens in Wikipedia

Athenagoras (Greek: Ἀθηναγόρας ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; ca. 133-190) was a Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian (though possibly not originally from Athens), a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity. There is some evidence that he was a Platonist before his ...

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Athenagŏras in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Ἀθηναγόρας). A Father of the Church, a native of Athens, and in philosophy a Platonist. He wrote a treatise on the doctrine of the resurrection of the body and a defence of the Christians, blending the teachings of the Greek philosophers with those of the Church. He flourished in the second half of the second century....

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