Quadratus of Athens
Also: Quadratus the Apologist, Kodratos
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
The first known Christian apologist, who gave a defence of the faith to Emperor Hadrian about 125.
Wrote in Greek.
His home is not known. Athens is where the Apology was given, by Eusebius's Chronicle; some scholars place him in Asia Minor. He is not the later Quadratus who was bishop of Athens, and may or may not be the prophet Quadratus of Eusebius, Church History 3.37.
Places lived
No place is known. The page shows no place from guesswork.
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 0 works can be read here.
- Apology (fragment)The oldest Christian defence written for an emperor; one sentence is left, which Eusebius quotes.not yet on the site
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- Eusebius, Church History 4.3; Jerome, On Illustrious Men 19; H. Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, 'Quadratus': no source gives a year
The corpus label says c. 70. That is a guess from his words that some people healed by Jesus lived 'to our day'. - Place of birth not known
- Eusebius, Church History 4.3; Jerome, On Illustrious Men 19; H. Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, 'Quadratus'
- Died not known
- Eusebius, Church History 4.3; Jerome, On Illustrious Men 19; H. Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, 'Quadratus': no source gives a year
The corpus label says 130. No source supports it. He was alive about 125. - Place of death not known
- Eusebius, Church History 4.3; Jerome, On Illustrious Men 19; H. Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, 'Quadratus'