{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4089.tlg003.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4089.tlg003.local002","title":"Historia Ecclesiastica","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus","authorityName":"THEODORETUS Scr. Eccl. et Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4089-theodoretus-scr-eccl-et/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4089-theodoretus-scr-eccl-et/","editors":["Johann Ludwig Schulze"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Theodoretus Cyrensis Episcopus Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"J.P. Migne","place":"Paris","date":"1864","volume":"3","series":"Patrologiae Graecae","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaecurs46migngoog","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Theodoret, Bishop Of Cyrus. Historia Ecclesiastica. ed. Johann Ludwig Schulze. Theodoretus Cyrensis Episcopus Opera Omnia, Paris, J.P. Migne, 1864. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4089.tlg003.local002","excerpt":"Ὁ τῆς ἱστορίας σκοπός. Ζωγράφοι μὲν, σανίσι καὶ τοίχοις τὰς παλαιὰς ἐγγράφοντες ἱστορίας, τέρψιν μὲν τοῖς ὁρῶσι προσφέρουσι, τῶν δὲ γεγενημένων τὴν μνήμην ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀνθοῦσαν φυλάττουσι. Λογογράφοι δὲ, ἀντὶ μὲν σανίδων ταῖς βίβλοις, ἀντὶ δὲ χρωμάτων τοῖς τῶν λόγων ἄνθεσι κεχρημένοι, διαρκεστέραν καὶ μονιμωτέραν τῶν πεπραγμένων ποιοῦσι τὴν μνήμην: ὁ γὰρ χρόνος λωβᾶται τῶν ζωγράφων τὴν τέχνην. Τούτου δὴ χάριν κἀγὼ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱστορίας τὰ λειπόμενα συγγράψαι πειράσομαι. Οὐ γὰρ ὅσιον ᾠήθην λαμπροτάτων ἔργων καὶ ὀνησιφόρων διηγημάτων τὸ κλέος παριδεῖν ὑπὸ τῆς λήθης συλώμενον. Διὰ γὰρ δὴ τοῦτο καὶ τῶν συνήθων τινὲς, ἐπὶ τόνδε με τὸν πόνον πολλάκις παρώτρυναν. Ἐγὼ δὲ τῇ μὲν ἐμαυτοῦ δυνάμει τόδε τὸ ἔργον σταθμώμενος, τὴν ἐγχείρησιν ʽ??ʼῤῥωδῶ. Θαῤῥῶν δὲ τῷ φιλοτίμῳ δοτῆρι τῶν ἀγαθῶν, μείζοσιν ἢ κατ̓ ἐμαυτὸν ἐγχειρῶ. Εὐσέβιος μὲν οὗν ὁ Παλαιστῖνος, ἀπὸ τῶν ἱερῶν ἀποστόλων τῆς ἱστορίας…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002/#tlg4089-tlg003-local002-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002/#tlg4089-tlg003-local002-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002/#tlg4089-tlg003-local002-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002/#tlg4089-tlg003-local002-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002/#tlg4089-tlg003-local002-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4089/tlg003/local002.json.gz"}}