EUSEBIO D'ALESSANDRIA

EUSEBIUS OF ALEXANDRIA. - Probably a fictitious figure of the Alexandrian priest JOHN (PG 86, 1, 297-310) who published under this name his own 22 Ascetical Treatises (ibid., 313-462).

Various fragments were discovered by K. Holl, Fragmente vaticanischer Kirchenwart aus der Sacra Parallela (Texte und Untersuchungen, 20, 1), Leipzig 1899, pp. 214-233). No fewer than 3 different Greek recensions of Sermon 16: De die dominica furone prohibita were found by F. Nau (in Revue de l'Orient chrét., 13 [1908], pp. 406-35), on which treatise see also Th. Zahn, Eine altkirchliche Rede über die Sonntagsmache, in Zeitschrift für kirchliche Wissenschaft und kirchliches Leben, 1884, pp. 516-34. Some sermons, inspired by the Gospel of Nicodemus, have a lively character and were probably later used for sacred representations.

BIBL.: Bardenhewer, IV, p. 86 sq.; F. Nau, s. V. in DTHC, V, p. 1526 sq.; on the use of homilies in sacred representations see G. Mercati, Opere minori, II, Città del Vaticano 1937, p. 417 sq.; G. La Piana, Le rappresentazioni sacre e la poesia ritmica drammatica nella letteratura bizantina, in Roma e l'Orient, 3 (1911-12), pp. 26 sq., 105 sq., 302 sq.; A. Baumstark, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, Bonn 1922, p. 62. Erik Piersson