Ignatius to Hero
Anonymous Pseudo-Ignatian compiler
Salutation / Introduction
About this work
A pseudonymous letter presenting Ignatius’s counsel to a successor named Hero, preserved within the expanded Ignatian corpus rather than the commonly accepted collection of seven letters.
- Author
- Anonymous Pseudo-Ignatian compiler
- Traditional attribution
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Date
- Probably late 4th–early 5th century
- Origin
- Unknown
- Genre
- Pseudonymous Letter
The letter is not generally accepted as an authentic work of Ignatius.
Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to Hero