Athenagoras (Athenag`oras) , an able Christian apologist of the 2nd century, was Athenian and a pagan by birth, but being converted to Christianity, wrote an apology in its defence, and a treatise on the resurrection of the dead.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Athenæus * Ath`ens