| Series |
Loeb Classical Library ; 190, 215, 243, 270
Loeb classical library ; 190, 215, 243, 270. ^A467228
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| Contents |
v. I. Letters 1-58 / with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari -- v. II. Letters 59-185 / with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari -- v. III. Letters 186-248 / with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari -- v. IV. Letters 249-368 / with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari ; On Greek literature / with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari and Martin R.P. McGuire. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography and indexes. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language | Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Letters. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1926 9780674992092(v.1) 9780674992375(v.2) 9780674992689(v.3) 9780674992986(v.4) |
| ISBN | (v. 1) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 2) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 3) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 4) print version |
