The Nicene Age · AD 313–400
Evagrius of Antioch
d. c. AD 393 · Bishop of Antioch (Eustathian line) · Latin translator of the Life of Antony · Antioch → Italy → Antioch
The Nicene Age
Who Evagrius of Antioch was
The aristocratic Antiochene who spent a decade among the Latins, brought Jerome east as his guest, and made the free, vivid Latin Life of Antony that carried the desert to the West — the very book two officials at Trier picked up in a hut, in the conversion-scene Augustine retells in the Confessions. Consecrated in old age as the tiny Eustathian party's bishop of Antioch, he prolonged the city's schism and translated its greatest export. Not Evagrius Ponticus, his monastic contemporary.
Also listed in the bishops of Antioch.
Common questions
When did Evagrius die?
Evagrius of Antioch is dated d. c. AD 393 in the archive, which places Evagrius in the Nicene Age (AD 313–400). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.
What did Evagrius write?
Evagrius of Antioch has 2 catalogued writings in the archive: The Latin Life of Antony and Treatises on diverse topics. 1 of these is lost, known only from later citation.
Which early sources mention Evagrius?
Evagrius of Antioch is named in 2 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Jerome of Stridon and Jerome. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.
Where was Evagrius from?
The archive associates Evagrius of Antioch with Antioch, Italy, Antioch. The sources record more than one location, so the places are listed in the order the record moves through them.
Writings (2)
The Latin Life of Antony
His free, eloquent version of Athanasius's Life — the text that reached Trier and turned Augustine's friends[A sense-for-sense translation, he says in the preface, 'lest the flavour be lost']Read the interlinear source text →
Treatises on diverse topics
Read aloud to Jerome, never published, never seen againHe read to me treatises on diverse topics, which he had not yet published. (Jerome, On Illustrious Men 125)Lost — known only from later citation.
Primary-source mentions (2)
Every passage below is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.
Chronicle of Jerome (the friend who carried Jerome to the desert's edge)
c. AD 380On Illustrious Men 125
c. AD 393Evagrius, bishop of Antioch, of keen and fervid intellect, while yet a presbyter read to me various treatises of his… the Life of the blessed Antony he translated from the Greek of Athanasius into our tongue.Jerome · 125 · source text
Connected in the archive
People
Events in this lifetime
- AD 325 · The Council of Nicaea, AD 325
- AD 339 · The persecution of Shapur II, AD 339
- AD 343 · The Council of Serdica, AD 343
- AD 361 · Julian’s pagan restoration, AD 361
- AD 366 · Damasus and the catacomb epigrams, AD 366
- AD 367 · Athanasius lists the 27 NT books, AD 367
- AD 372 · The martyrdom of Sabbas the Goth, AD 372
- AD 378 · Queen Mavia’s revolt, AD 378
- AD 380 · The Edict of Thessalonica, AD 380
- AD 381 · The Council of Constantinople, AD 381
- AD 381 · The Council of Aquileia, AD 381
- AD 384 · The Altar of Victory petition, AD 384
- AD 390 · Thessalonica and the penance of Theodosius, AD 390
Place
Places served
The 2 places the sources put Evagrius, in the order the record moves through them. This is what the sources attest, not a reconstructed route.