“Monotheistic” Discourses in Pseudo-Justin’s De monarchia: the “Uniqueness” of God and the Alexandrian Hegemony

This paper reminds us of pseudo-Justinian’s De monarchia, a work which makes not only extensive use of Greek tragedy, but actually uses these excerpta to support various apologetic arguments: the unity of God (Mon. 2), the future judgment (Mon. 3), the uselessness of sacrifices (Mon. 4), and the futility of false gods (Mon. 4). This contribution focuses on the “monotheistic” discourses in De monarchia in comparison with other Alexandrian (not Jewish and/or proto-Christian) philosophical and/or religious discourses on the same topic.