The Refutation of All Heresies
Authorship uncertain
Book 5 · Chapter 20
About this work
A large heresiological work tracing contested Christian teachings to Greek philosophy, mystery traditions, astrology, and magic, then setting them against the author’s account of apostolic truth.
- Author
- Authorship uncertain
- Traditional attribution
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Date
- Early 3rd century, probably c. AD 220s
- Origin
- Rome (traditional)
- Genre
- Heresiology
Traditional attribution to Hippolytus remains disputed, and the author is often called the Refutator.
Chapter XX.—The Cosmogony of Justinus an Allegorical Explanation of Herodotus’ Legend of Hercules.
Herodotus, then, asserts that Hercules,