Title(s):
- Account of the council of Chalcedon
Period covered:
5th c.?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
- Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
Menas is quoted in the Life of the 25th patriarch of Alexandria, Dioscorus I, as author of an account on the conflict between Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius and on the pains Dioscorus went through at the Council of Chalcedon. According to Johnson (1974), Menas is the main source of the Lives 1-24 of the History of the patriarchs of Alexandria, whereas Den Heijer (1989: 119-121), more cautiously, takes into account the possibility that Lives 1-24 are also based on a Coptic translation of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical history.
The identification with Menas the Historian seems unlikely since he is named among classicizing historians.
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