Apology (fragment)

Apologia

Written about 125, perhaps in Athenae (now Athens, Greece). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The oldest Christian defence written for an emperor; one sentence is left, which Eusebius quotes.

Apology · first written in Greek

The corpus file holds the one fragment. After it comes a stray piece from the Martyrdom of Polycarp, which names a different man (the proconsul Statius Quadratus).

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Eusebius, Church History 4.3 (given to Hadrian) and Chronicle (year 124/125); Hadrian was at Athens in 124-125 and 128-129
Agrees with the corpus claim (c. 125).
Place written not sure: Eusebius, Chronicle, and Jerome, On Illustrious Men 19: given to Hadrian at Athens; Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579885
Some scholars place Quadratus in Asia Minor. Jerome mixes him with a later bishop of Athens.