Dates

• Eusebius (fl c.265-c.340)
• Educated by Pamphilus, a studet of Origen, in Caesarea
• 310: Pamphilus dies: Eusebius moves to Tyre, and on t Egypt
• c. 314/5 Bishop of Caesarea
• 324/5: Condemned as pro-Arian by Council of Antioch
• Last revision of the History of the Church:The History of the Church see especially Books 8-10
• 325 Council of Nicaea: Eusebius attends and is rehabilitated
• 327 Offered the bishopric of Antioch, but refuses
• 335 Attends Council of Tyre and consecration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
• 336 Delivers Tricennial Oration, celebrating Constantine's 30 years in power:
• In Praise of Constantine , trans. in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers I (=NPNF I): Translation and edition by H. A. Drake (Berkeley, 1976)
• 337 Constantine dies; Eusebius works on the Life:
• Life of Constantine online; English translation and commentary by Averil Cameron and Stuart Hall (Oxford 1999)
• 337-340 Eusebius dies, probably leaving the Life uncompleted

See also further works

See Chronicle and here

Discussions

• Friedhelm Winkelmann, Die Textbezeugung der Vita Constantini des Eusebius von Caesarea ( Berlin, 1962)
• A. Momigliano, 'Pagan and Christian historiography' in A. Momigliano ed. The conflict between paganism and Christianity in the fourth century (Oxford, 1963) online
• T. D. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius (Harvard 1981)
• C. Lubheid, Eusebius of Caesarea and the Arian Crisis (Galway, 1981)
• H.A. Drake, What Eusebius knew : the genesis of the "Vita Constantini", Classical philology 83 (1988)
• A. Louth, 'The date of Eusebius' Historia Ecclesiastica', JThS 41 (1990), 111-23
• H.W. Attridge and G. Hata edd., Eusebus, Christianity and Judaism (Detroit, 1992)
• Averil Cameron, “Eusebius’ Vita Constantini and the Construction of Constantine” in M.J. Edwards and Simon Swain, Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire (Oxford 1997): pp.145-174.
• Claudia Rapp, “Imperial Ideology in the Making: Eusebius of Caesarea on Constantine as ‘Bishop’”. Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 49 (1998) 685-695.
• M. J. Hollerich, Christian exegeisis in the Age of Constantine (Oxford, 1999)
• T. C. Skeat 'The Codex Sinaiaticus, the Codex Vaticanus, and Constantine', JThS 50 (1999), 583-625
• A. Kofsky, Eusebius of Caesarea against paganism (Leiden, 2000).
• A. Carriker, The Library of Eusebius of Caesarea (Leiden/Boston, 2003)
• Noel Lenski ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge, 2006)
• Anthony Grafton, Christianity and the transformation of the book : Origen, Eusebius, and the library of Caesarea
  (Harvard University Press, 2006)
• S. Inowlocki, Eusebius and the Jewish authors : his citation technique in an apologetic context (Leiden, 2006).
• Michael Williams, Authorised lives in early Christian biography : between Eusebius and Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Jeremy Schott, Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity ( University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
  

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