Note su Agapio, autore dell’ Eptalogo

Starting from the literary reconstruction that Photius offers, the present paper focuses on the character of Agapius and his doctrine.In the Bibliotheca (chap. 179) the patriarch mentions Agapius, defining him an impious man and attributing to him a work, composed of twenty-three treatises and some other chapters. Photius informs that in this writing the author pretends to profess the Christian faith, but, in reality, he reveals himself to be an enemy of Christ; however, he does not specify the title of the work of which the summary is reported.The patriarch also remembers Agapius in his Contra Manichaeos (50), equating him to a disciple of Mani, as well as identifying him as the author of the Heptalogue.The paper relates the information provided by Photius, which appears to be discordant in reference to the era in which the character would have lived, with those coming from other ancient sources. In doing so, the present paper pursues the attempt to identify the elements that allow Agapius to be placed in the history of the Christiandoctrine.