36.2-40.1); that there is no plurality of gods but creational monarchy (Oratio ad Graecos 29.2); that there is no plurality of worlds but only one with only one final judgment to come, which is to be universal (Oratio ad Graecos 6.1).. The literary genre of the Oratio is still that of apologetics, with elements of diatribe and protreptic. Sterling has called it "apologetic historiography." See also Greek Gospel of the Egyptians References Further reading Petersen, W. The Diatessaron and Ephrem of Syrus as Sources of Romanos the Melodist (Tournout, Peeters, 1985) (CSCO 475 [Subsidia 74]). Neymeyr, U. Die christliche Lehrer im zweiten Jahrhundert. Ihre Lehrtätigkeit, ihr Selbsverständnis und ihre Geschichte (Leiden, 1989) (Vigiliae Christianae. Supplements, 4), 182–194. Petersen, W. Tatian's Diatessaron: Its Creation, Dissemination, Significance and History in Scholarship (Leiden, Brill, 1994). Hunt, E. J. Christianity in the 2nd Century: The Case of Tatian (London, Routledge, 2003). Gaca, K. L. "Driving Aphrodite from the World: Tatian and His Encratite Argument," in Eadem, The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003), 221–246. Petersen, W. L. "Tatian the Assyrian," in Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen (eds), A Companion to Second-Century Christian "Heretics" (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 125–158. Harris, J. R. "The First Tatian Reading in the Greek New Testament," in Idem, New Testament Autographs and Other Essays (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2006) (New Testament Monographs, 7). Zola, N. J. Tatian's Diatessaron and the Passion Chronology. M.A. diss., Abilene Christian University, 2009, 177 pp., #050-0171. External links Translation 'Address to the Greeks', website earlychristianwritings.com. (Translation J.E. Ryland) page, linking to translation ‘Address to the Greeks’, website ccel.org. (Translation J.E. Ryland) links to Greek and Latin versions of 'Address to the Greeks', and to ‘The Diatessaron Of tatian’. Website documentacatholicaomnia.eu. Entry in ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’ on Tatian. Website newadvent.org. 120s births 180s deaths Syriac writers Bible commentators Systematic theologians Gnosticism Christian apologists 2nd-century Romans 2nd-century writers 2nd-century Christian theologians