Rhodo, the Disciple of Tatian

Rhodo, a native of Asia, was instructed in the Scriptures at Rome by Tatian, whom we mentioned above. He published many works, especially one Against Marcion, in which he tells how the Marcionites disagree among themselves as well as with the church. He says that the aged Apelles, another heretic, once held a debate with him, and that he, Rhodo, held Apelles up to ridicule because Apelles declared that he did not know the God whom he worshiped. In the same book, which he wrote to Callistion, he mentions that he had been a pupil of Tatian at Rome. He also wrote elegant treatises On the Six Days of Creation and a notable work against the Phrygians. He flourished in the reigns of Commodus and Severus. [a]