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Agathon of Scetis

Also: Abba Agathon, Agathon of Egypt

Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.

Monk of Scetis known for his care of others and his guard on his tongue.

Wrote in Coptic.

Places lived

  1. until 407Scetis (now Wadi El Natrun, Egypt)monkyears not sure, place probable
  2. years not knownTroe (now Tura, Egypt)monkplace not sure

Works

1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.

Filed here, not written by Agathon of Scetis

These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.

How we know the dates and places
Born not known
Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Agathon gives no year
Place of birth not known
Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Agathon
Died not known
Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Agathon 29 tells of his death with no year; he was a young man under Poemen (Poemen 61)
Place of death not known
Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Agathon 29
Scetis, years not sure
Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Poemen 61; he left with his disciples, probably at the raid of 407
Scetis, place probable
Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Agathon; Poemen 61; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232
Troe, years not known
Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Arsenius 32 and 42 give no year
Troe, place not sure
His disciples Alexander and Zoilus were later with Arsenius at Troe (Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Arsenius 32); Chitty, The Desert a City; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727252