Bishop of Olympus in Lycia and martyr under Diocletian. His Symposium (or Banquet of the Ten Virgins), modeled on Plato but Christianized, is the first sustained Eastern monastic and virginal theology in dialogue form. His Aglaophon, or On the Resurrection — a careful refutation of certain speculative Origenian positions on the resurrection body — is an important pre-Nicene witness to Eastern eschatology. Commemorated 20 June.
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Icon: Methodius of Olympus · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain