Anonymous Compiler

The Anonymus Cyzicenus is the anonymous author of an ecclesiastical history of the 5th century. It has often been misattributed to Gelasius of Cyzicus, an error going back to Photius and followed by the editor of the editio princeps. The anonymous author never mentions his name. The author tells us that he was the son of a priest of Cyzicus, and that he wrote in the Roman province of Bithynia in Asia Minor, about 475, to prove against the Eutychians, that the Nicene Fathers did not teach Monophy…