Eusebius of Caesarea and His Early Continuators

The fourth-century bishop and scholar Eusebius of Caesarea established the genres that would shape subsequent Christian histories for generations. The present chapter seeks to situate the Lost Arian History within this historiographical context by revisiting Eusebius and his historical writings and by identifying his earliest known continuators. In so doing, we can better understand the models that likely inspired the Lost Arian Historian and how it is that other sources, not included in Bidez’s reconstruction, may echo this lost work.