Letters, Volume II: Letters 59?185 (Loeb Classical Library)

Basil

ISBN 10: 0674992377 / ISBN 13: 9780674992375

Published by Harvard University Press, 1928

About this Item

Dust jacket is white with green lettering, shows signs of light shelf wear and age along with a piece cut on inside front. Pages slightly yellowed. Binding is tight and square. Contents are crisp, clean, complete and undamaged. Ex-library, with expected library markings. Book was donated to Friends of Omaha Public Library.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters, Volume II: Letters 59?185 (Loeb Classical Library)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1928
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674992377
• ISBN 13: 9780674992375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 11 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classical literature

About this title

Synopsis

Correspondence of a Cappadocian Father.

Basil the Great was born ca. AD 330 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.

About the Author

Roy Joseph Deferrari (1890–1969) was Professor of Classics at the Catholic University of America.