Primary source · Koine Greek
The Address to the Greeks
Tatian the Assyrian · c. AD 160–170
What this text is
Justin's brilliant, bitter pupil turns Greek rhetoric against Greek culture — chronology proving Moses older than Homer — before his later drift toward the Encratites.
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Interlinear passages
Word-for-word glosses of the original; the complete public-domain translation is linked below.
Chapter 1 — the opening challenge
ΜὴNotπάνυaltogetherφιλέχθρωςwith hostilityδιατίθεσθεbe disposedπρὸςtowardτοὺςtheβαρβάρους,barbariansὦOἄνδρεςmenἝλληνεςGreeks
Public-domain translations
J. E. Ryland (ANF, 1885)
Be not, O Greeks, so very hostilely disposed towards the Barbarians, nor look with ill will on their opinions. For which of your institutions has not been derived from the Barbarians?
Manuscript witnesses
Codex Parisinus gr. 451 (Arethas codex)
AD 914The apologetic corpus commissioned by Archbishop Arethas of Caesarea — the anchor of the Greek apologists' transmission.
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 6 (Migne)
1857Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Rome, c. AD 165–172, before the return east
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Tatian: Oratio ad Graecos (OECT)Molly Whittaker, 1982Critical text with facing translation.
- Tatian the Assyrian (VC Supplements)Naomi Koltun-Fromm et al. (studies), 2008–Modern scholarship on the apologist-harmonizer.