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The Apostolic Age · c. 124–125; one fragment survives
Apology to Hadrian
Quadratus
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What it is
The first Christian defence addressed to an emperor, of which Eusebius preserves a single paragraph noting that some healed by Jesus had lived into the writer's own lifetime.
Why it lasted
The earliest Christian apology known by name, and the opening of a genre that ran for three centuries.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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