ABSTRACT
Eusebius of Caesarea and Marcellus of Ancyra were both prolific apologists and theological adversaries before and after the Council of Nicaea in 325. In both modes of writing, they make use of philosophical reasoning and show knowledge of Greek antecedents, but Marcellus is more hostile to philosophy as a discipline, whereas Eusebius represents Christianity as the true and primordial philosophy which the Greeks derived only later, and imperfectly, from Hebrew models.
