Athanasius of Alexandria

Bishop of Alexandria; champion of the Nicene faith.

c. AD 296–373 Greek East The age of Nicaea 27 works Wikipedia

Fully prepared texts

Side by side with the original Greek where we have it, an older public-domain English translation, and a modern English version.

On the Incarnation of the Word GreekOlder EnglishModern English 57 chapters

More writings in English

English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.

Against the Heathen Older English 1.8 h read
Circular Letter Older English 18 min read
Council of Nicaea Older English 7 min read
Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia Older English 1.9 h read
De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition Older English 70 min read
Defence Against the Arians Older English 2.9 h read
Defence Before Constantius Older English 56 min read
Defence of His Flight Older English 38 min read
Deposition of Arius Older English 10 min read
Four Discourses Against the Arians Older English 8.5 h read
History of the Arians Older English 1.9 h read
Letters of Athanasius Older English 5.6 h read
Life of Antony Older English 1.8 h read
On Luke 10 22 (Matt 11 27) Older English 14 min read
On the Opinion of Dionysius Older English 44 min read
Statement of Faith Older English 6 min read
To the Bishops of Africa Older English 20 min read
To the Bishops of Egypt Older English 50 min read
Tome or Synodal Letter to the People of Antioch Older English 13 min read
The Festal Epistles (Burgess translation from the Syriac) Older EnglishOCR text 3.5 h read
The Festal Epistles: Fragments and Additional Letters (Burgess translation) Older EnglishOCR text 11 min read
The Life of Saint Anthony (Syriac version, Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 2.8 h read

Original-language texts

The Latin and Greek texts as edited and digitised by the Open Greek and Latin project (CC BY-SA 4.0): one column, with the standard references, and plain-text and TEI XML downloads for scholars. They have been corrected from print by machine and may still contain errors.

De decretis Nicaenae synodi (Greek) Greek 6 min read
Oratio I contra Arianos (Greek) Greek 1.8 h read
Oratio III contra Arianos (Greek) Greek 1.8 h read
Oratio II contra Arianos (Greek) Greek 2.2 h read

Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.