Epiphanius Scholasticus was a sixth-century translator of Greek works into Latin. The 6th century is the period from 501 - 600 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

Little is known of his life, aside from his works. It seems he bore the name Scholasticus "not so much because of any devotion to literature or theology, but in the sense that that word frequently had in the middle ages, meaning a chaplain, amanuensis, or general assistant of any dignitary of the church."[1]

Under the direction of Cassiodorus, in about 510, he compiled the Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome, or the Historia Tripartita ("Tripartite History"), a standard manual of church history through the Middle Ages. Epiphanius undertook the translations into Latin of the Greek church histories of Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen and Theodoret, written in the previous century. Cassiodorus at his Vivarium library ( in Codex Amiatinus, 8th century). ... Events Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius is appointed a consul by Theoderic Births Gildas, Celtic monk Deaths Hashim, great-grandfather of Muhammad and ancestor of the Hashemites Categories: 510 ... Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome, the abridged history (in twelve books) of the early Christian Church known as the Tripartite History, was the standard manual of Church history in Medieval Europe. ... Socrates Scholasticus was a Greek Christian church historian; born at Constantinople c. ... Salminius Hermias Sozomen (c. ... Theodoret (393 – c. ...

Epiphanius also translated the commentaries of Didymus on the Proverbs of Solomon and on the seven general epistles, as well as the commentaries of Epiphanius of Salamis upon Canticles. His Codex Encyclicus, compiled at the urging of Cassiodorus, collects and translates letters addressed by different synods to the Emperor Leo I in defence of the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon against the Monophysite Timotheus Aelurus. The list was drawn up in 458 by the order of Leo I, although Epiphanius made several additions to it. Didymus (?309-?394), surnamed the Blind, was an ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria, was born about the year 309. ... The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanakh and of the Writings of the Old Testament. ... General epistles are books in the New Testament in the form of letters. ... Epiphanius (ca 310–20 – 403) was a Church Father, a heresiologist who was a strong defender of orthodoxy, known for tracking down deviant teachings (heresies) wherever they could be traced, during the troubled era in the Christian Church following the Council of Nicaea. ... A canticle is a hymn (strictly excluding the Psalms) taken from the Bible. ... Leo I coin. ... The Council of Chalcedon was an ecumenical council that took place from October 8 to November 1, 451, at Chalcedon (a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor), today part of the city of Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus and known as the district of Kadıköy. ... Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning one and physis meaning nature) is the christological position that Christ has only one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Events Childeric I succeeds Merovech as king of the Franks (or 457). ...

External links

• Henry Wace, editor, A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature, Epiphanius Scholasticus
• Catholic Encyclopedia article on Epiphanius Scholasticus

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