Back to the Library
The Church Fathers · c. 313–320
Preparation for the Gospel
Praeparatio Evangelica
Eusebius of Caesarea · c. 260–339
Read elsewhere
What it is
Fifteen books arguing that Christians were right to prefer Hebrew scripture to Greek philosophy, assembled from enormous quotations of pagan authors.
Why it lasted
Preserves more lost classical philosophy than any other single work — much of what survives of Porphyry and the Middle Platonists is here.
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.
Read next