Apology of Aristides

ARISTIDES, APOLOGY OF (ăr’ ĭs tī’ dez). A work by a Christian Athenian philosopher named Marcianus Aristides, who, according to Eurebius (Hist. IV, 3), was a contemporary of another Athenian apologist, both of whom addressed their “apologies” for the Christian religion to the Emperor Hadrian. A cent. later Jerome wrote that he was familiar with the work, but after this date Aristides faded from view until the 19th cent.