Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ.
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Methodius
Methodius
?–311 CE
Methodius (died c. 311), often called Methodius of Olympus, was an early Christian bishop and writer traditionally associated with martyrdom under persecution. His best-known work, the Symposium or Banquet of the Ten Virgins, praises virginity in a dialogue modeled on Plato. He also wrote on free will and the resurrection, notably opposing certain teachings of Origen. Several of his works survive only in fragments preserved by later authors, but he remains an important ante-Nicene theological voice.
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Methodius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Some Other Fragments of the Same Methodius.
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From the Discourse on the Resurrection.
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Concerning Free-Will.
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Two Fragments, Uncertain.
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Fragments.
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Oration on the Palms.
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The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; or Concerning Chastity.
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General Note.
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Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna On the Day that They Met in the Temple.
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