Editing Basilides (section)

===Church Fathers===
Historians know of Basilides and his teachings mainly through the writings of his detractors, and it is impossible to determine how reliable these accounts are.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} The oldest refutation of the teachings of Basilides, by [[Agrippa Castor]], is lost,{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} and we are dependent upon the later accounts of:<ref name=Arendzen>Arendzen 1913.</ref>
*[[Eusebius of Caesarea]], ''[[Church History (Eusebius)|Ecclesiastical History]]'', [[s:Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Church History of Eusebius/Book IV/Chapter 7|Book IV, Chapter vii]], written around the 4th century.
*[[St. Clement of Alexandria]], ''[[Stromata]]'', Book I, Chapter xxi; Book II, Chapters vi, viii, and xx; Book IV, Chapters xi, xii, and xxv; Book V, Chapter I, etc., written between 208 and 210, and the so-called ''Excerpta ex Theodoto'' perhaps from the same hand.
*[[St. Hippolytus of Rome]], ''[[Philosophumena]]'', Book VII, written about 225.
*Pseudo-Tertullian, ''Against All Heresies'', a little treatise usually attached to [[Tertullian]]'s ''De Praescriptionibus'', but really by another hand, perhaps by Victorinus of Pettau, written about 240 and based upon a non-extant "Compendium" of St. Hippolytus.
*[[St. Epiphanius of Salamis]], ''[[Panarion]]'', Book I, Sect xxiv.
*[[Theodoret of Cyrus]], ''Compendium of Heretical Accounts'', Book I, Chapter iv.