Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

On the destruction of Serapis
De subversione Serapis
(De subversione Serapis, On the destruction of Serapis)

Author:

Sophronius

Period covered:

391

Language:

Greek

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The work was an account of the destruction of the Serapeion of Alexandria in 391. Schwartz (1966: 110 n.61) tries to reconstruct the structure of Sophronius' monograph, but as shown by Thelamon (1991: 161 n.7), his attempt is not convincing.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Jerome, On illustrious men 134

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Bibliography:

J.P. Migne (1883) S. Eusebii Hieronymi Stridonensis Presbyteri De viris illustribus liber ad Dextrum, praetorio praefectum (Patrologia Latina, 23). Paris: 755.
R.C. Richardson (1896) Hieronymus, Liber de viris inlustribus. Gennadius, Liber de viris inlustribus (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 14/1a). Leipzig.
E. Schwartz (1966) 'La fin du sérapeum d'Alexandrie'. In: Essays in honour of C. Bradford Welles, ed. A.E. Samuel (American Studies in Papyrology, 1). New Haven (CO.): 97-111.
F. Thelamon (1991) Païens et chrétiens au IVe siècle: L'apport de l' "histoire ecclésiastique" de Rufin d'Aquilée. Paris: 161.