![]() ![]() ![]() Nor did these write independently of each other, for Sozomen ( q.v.) certainly had before him the work of Socrates, and Theodoret ( q.v.) knew both of them. In the West the Church History of that author had already been continued by Rufinus and his Chronicle by Jerome, and the work of Rufinus was certainly known to the Byzantines. None of them has ventured upon a fresh treatment of the period dealt with by Eusebius all three begin their narratives about the point where his closes. The remaining three are now our main sources for church history from Constantine to Theodosius II. ![]() ![]() Those of Philip and of Hesychius (the former an untrustworthy and dreary performance mentioned by Socrates ) have also perished. Of these the first, no longer extant except in fragments, seems to have been the most important. (the first thoroughly Byzantine emperor) at least six church histories were written in Greek within the limits of the Eastern Empire-those, namely, of Philostorgius the Arian, of Philip of Side, of Socrates, of Sozomen, of Theodoret and of Hesychius. In the course of the last twenty-five years (425–450) of the reign of Theodosius II. SOCRATES, the name of a famous 5th-century church historian. ![]()
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