Methodius

The writings of Methodius of Olympus span the closing years of the third century and the beginning of the fourth century. There is considerable uncertainly about this Christian writer. An itinerant teacher rather than a bishop with fixed location (R. Williams), it is possible that Methodius was martyred in 312 during Maximinus’s visit to Caria. His main work, also one of his earliest, The Banquet or On Virginity, (CPG I, 1810) is entirely preserved in the original Greek.

Charles Kannengiesser, Handbook of Patristic Exegesis: The Bible in Ancient Christianity (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 584.