Heron

Heron is known only as a frequent correspondent of Isidore of Pelusium, active in the early-to-mid 5th-century Pelusium milieu of the eastern Nile Delta. Isidore addresses him under shifting titles across the letters - as scholasticus (advocate or learned legal counsel), as presbyter, and as monk - which suggests either a man of changing station or, as often in this collection, some looseness in the address headings; what is consistent is that he was a learned man who put questions to Isidore and received answers in return. The surviving letters show Isidore instructing him on points of Scripture (Titus 1:16, the Athenian altar 'To an Unknown God,' Proverbs 21:2, 1 Peter 3:7), refuting the Arians and Eunomians on the consubstantiality of the Son, and counseling him on contentment and the choice of virtuous company. One exchange reproves him at length over a lawsuit he had begun out of greed against an opponent at law, urging him to settle through kindness rather than press the case in court - the most concrete biographical trace, though he is otherwise unattested.