Evagrius also drew upon other contemporary historical tracts that are now either severely truncated or lost all together, including the works of Eustathius, Zachariah Scholasticus, and John of Epiphania.īut what makes Evagius most interesting is his inclusion of his own eye-witness testimony. For these important events in Church history, Evagrius is a first-class source for some of them, he is the sole source in the original Greek. The first section of this work deals almost exclusively with ecclesiastical issues, such as the heresy and death of Nestorius, the Council of Ephesus, the second Council of Ephesus (the so-called Robber Council ), extensive passages on the Council of Chalcedon, the circular and counter-circular of Basiliscus, and the Henoticon of the emperor Zeno. While never straying from his purpose, Evagrius records a great deal of information from both religious and temporal history much of it witnessed by him personally that would have otherwise been lost. A staunch though broadminded Chalcedonian, Evagrius styles himself as continuator of the great Church historians Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret.
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