other · 443 · Constantinople
He was a lawyer at Constantinople from a family near Gaza, and he wrote a few years after Socrates and largely out of him — which is visible enough that the relationship is a standing topic. What he adds is the reason he is worth having: he came from a region full of monks, his own grandfather had been converted by one, and he puts the ascetic movement back into a narrative Socrates had told mostly through councils and emperors. This dataset has drawn on that repeatedly in the last two batches — Pachomius, Macarius, Hilarion, Ephrem, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Olympias all rest on him — and his page was empty while it did so.
To go over Socrates' ground again, better written and with the monks put back.
Nine books covering 324 to 425, and the source this dataset reaches for whenever the subject is a monastery.