- For other with this surname, see Agrippa (disambiguation).
Agrippa Castor has been identified as "the earliest recorded writer against heresy, and apparently the only one who composed a book solely devoted to the refutation of Basilides". "Basilides" redirects here For the 17th century Ethiopian Emperor see Fasilides of Ethiopia. Little is known of him besides second-hand passing in ancient historical references. [1]
Agrippa Castor was known by both Eusebius and Jerome as an author who provided a critique of Basilides (died c. Jerome (c 347 – September 30, 420) ( Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος 132) and his twenty-four books of "Exegetics". Eusebius mentions him within the narrative of early gnostic "succession" and schools, provides no other details of his life. While Jerome mentions Agrippa Castor in a quote about Quadratus and Aristides both at Athens. Jerome (c 347 – September 30, 420) ( Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος Saint Quadratus of Athens (Greek Άγιος Κοδράτος is said to have been the first of the Christian apologists. Aristides or Aristeides ( Greek, 530–468 BC was an Athenian soldier and statesman Likening Agrippa Castor to being first of the Christian "apologists", like Hegesippus, and Justin Martyr. Saint Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin the Philosopher, Latin Iustinus Martyr or Flavius
From these small passages, it could be concluded that "Quadratus of Athens wrote when Hadrian visited Athens", that is, around the winter of 124-125 AD; "Aristides and Justin probably replied to the attack made by the rhetorician Fronto" who was consul suffectus in 143. Saint Quadratus of Athens (Greek Άγιος Κοδράτος is said to have been the first of the Christian apologists. Publius Aelius Hadrianus (January 24 76 &ndash July 10 138 as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after Marcus Cornelius Fronto ( c 100 - 170) Roman grammarian rhetorician and advocate was born at Cirta in Numidia. Hegesippus is not included by modern scholarship among the "apologists," being known instead with Eusebius and Jerome as historian, who "went to Rome in the time of Anicetus, the tenth bishop after Peter, and continued there till the time of Eleutherius", circa AD155 and 189.
From this time "Agrippa accuses Basilides of teaching that it was a matter of no moral significance to taste food offered to idols", and one could "renounce without reservation the faith in times of persecution" and that "he imposed upon his followers a five years' silence after the manner of Pythagoras". "Pythagoras of Samos" redirects here For the Samian statuary of the same name see Pythagoras (sculptor. Agrippa Castor also is recorded as having found in Basilides the same concerns for the numerology, and the use of "Abrasax" for Basilides "most high God". The word Abraxas (or Abrasax or Abracax) was engraved on certain antique stones called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used The name Abrasax being found engraved on Greek magical gems or recorded in Greek magical papyri. [2]
References
- ^ Christie, Albany James (1867), “Agrippa Castor”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849 originally published 1844 under a slightly different title is an Encyclopedia / Biographical dictionary 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. Little Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner James Brown. 77
- ^ http://www.dacb.org/stories/egypt/agrippa_castor.html
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