Letters
Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries. Basil the Great was born ca. 330 CE at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he he…
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- Full title :Letters / Saint Basil ; with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari.
Summary
Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries. Basil the Great was born ca. 330 CE at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. He visited monasteries in Egypt and Palestine and sought out the most famous hermits in Syria and elsewhere to learn how to lead a pious and ascetic life; but he decided that communal monastic life and work were best. About 360 he founded in Pontus a convent to which his sister and widowed mother belonged. Ordained a presbyter in 365, in 370 he succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea, which included authority over all Pontus. He died in 379. Even today his reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Basil's Letters is in four volumes.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press, W. Heinemann
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
Notes
Greek and English on opposite pages.
Address to young men on reading Greek literature" / with an English translation by R.J. Deferrari and M.R.P. McGuire: v. 4, p. [363]-435.
Parallel texts in Greek and English.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (4 volumes) : : color map.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0674992091, 9780674992092, 0674992377, 9780674992375, 0434991902, 9780434991907, 0434992151, 9780434992157, 0674992687, 9780674992689, 0434992437, 9780434992430, 0674992989, 9780674992986, 0434992704, 9780434992706
- oclc:ocn906910283
- LC Classification:PA3612.G7
- Dewey Decimal:888.9
Table of Contents
V. 1. Letters 1-58 -- v. 2. v. 2. Letters 59-185 -- v. 3. Letters 186-248 -- v. 4. Letters 249-368; On Greek Literature.
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