c. 256–336 CE · Christian presbyter · theologian
Arius
Ἄρειος
Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 300–325 CE
An Alexandrian priest whose teaching that the Son had a beginning set off the controversy that led to the Council of Nicaea in 325. Fragments of his verse Thalia survive in Athanasius.
Our device: Their emblem is a song sheet. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Arius of Alexandria, Thalia · c. 320s CE · Survives in fragments
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Sources (2)
- Athanasius, Against the Arians 1.5–6
- C. Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)