Mark the Deacon
Also: Marcus Diaconus
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died perhaps from 420; the place is not known.
Deacon and companion of Porphyry, bishop of Gaza, and the stated writer of his life.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 392 to 395Hierosolyma (now Jerusalem)copyistyears probable, place probable
- 395 to 420Gazadeaconyears probable, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
Filed here, not written by Mark the Deacon
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Life of Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza disputedHow Porphyry became bishop of Gaza and had its pagan temples closed and the Marneion destroyed.35,846 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- G. F. Hill, The Life of Porphyry Bishop of Gaza by Mark the Deacon (1913), introduction (the text in the corpus)
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_the_Deacon : from the province of Asia; no town
- Died not sure
- G. F. Hill, The Life of Porphyry Bishop of Gaza by Mark the Deacon (1913), introduction (the text in the corpus): he outlived Porphyry (died 420)
- Place of death not known
- G. F. Hill, The Life of Porphyry Bishop of Gaza by Mark the Deacon (1913), introduction (the text in the corpus)
- Hierosolyma, years probable
- Life of Porphyry 5-12
- Hierosolyma, place probable
- Life of Porphyry 5: a copyist in Jerusalem; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687928
- Gaza, years probable
- Life of Porphyry 16 and 103
- Gaza, place probable
- Life of Porphyry; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687902