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The Church Fathers · c. 308–310; partly survives
Apology for Origen
Pamphilus of Caesarea · d. 309
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What it is
Written in prison with Eusebius's help, answering charge by charge the accusations against Origen's orthodoxy, mostly by quoting him at length.
Why it lasted
The opening defence in a controversy that ran for three centuries, and a rare witness to Origen's own words before they were purged.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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