Commodian
Also: Commodianus
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Latin Christian poet who wrote rough acrostic verse against the pagan gods and the Jews; when and where he lived is disputed.
Wrote in Latin.
Places lived
No place is known. The page shows no place from guesswork.
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- InstructionsEighty acrostic poems in rough verse: the first book mocks the pagan gods, the second teaches each class of Christians.14,449 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- Gennadius, On Illustrious Men 15, gives no dates; scholars place him in the third century or in the fifth
- Place of birth not known
- The acrostic "Commodianus ... Gasaeus" (Instructions 2.39) may mean "of Gaza" or "of the treasury"; Africa and Syria are both proposed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodian
- Died not known
- No ancient source
- Place of death not known
- No ancient source