Athenagoras
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Early Christian apologist cited on Christians declining to litigate against robbers.
The Christians, says Athenagoras, never go to law with those, who rob them.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A popular leader at Syracuse who dismisses the danger of the Athenian expedition as exaggeration and attacks his political rivals as aspiring oligarchs.
Athenagoras, who was a leader of the people, and most influential with the multitude at the present time, then came forward to them and spoke as follows:
and that all these things, both severally and collectively, have their due share allotted to them in a democracy.
since, in my opinion, they are quite contented that we, with so many and so great cities as we have, are not going against them.