The letters : in four volumes Address to young men on reading Greek literature

Author(s)

• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca.
• Deferrari, Roy Joseph
• McGuire, Martin R. P.

Bibliographic Information

The letters : in four volumes . Address to young men on reading Greek literature

Saint Basil ; with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari . with an English translation by Roy Joseph Deferrari and Martin R.P. McGuire

（The Loeb classical library, 270）

W. Heinemann , Harvard University Press, 1950

• 4 : us
• 4 : uk

Other Title

Του εν αγιοις πατρος ημων Βασιλειου Επιστολαι

Collected letters of Saint Basil

Προς τους νεους ΅Οπως ΅αν 'εξ ΅Ελληνικων 'ωφελοιντο λογων

Basil the Great's To young men, on how they might derive profit from pagan literature

Note

Vols. 1-3は別書誌: <BA04527923>

Greek text and English translation on opposite pages

First published in U.S.: New York : Putnam or Macmillan, 1934

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA04528289
• ISBN:
  • 0674992989
  • 0434992704
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: grceng
• Place of Publication: London,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 461 p.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 089.1
  • NDC7 : 991.5
  • NDLC : KE211
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115