Athenag'oras

Athenag'oras, an early Christian philosopher, who taught first at Athens, and afterwards at Alexandria. He is the most elegant writer among the so-called apologists in the second half of the 2d century, and we possess two writings from his pen—his Legatio pro Christianis, addressed to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus, composed about 163, and De Resurrectione Mortuorum, written about 180. In these he defends the Christians against the heathen charges of atheism, incest, and cannibalism with great clearness and convincing power.