Letters, Volume I: Letters 1-58

Letters, Volume I: Letters 1-58

Letters, Volume I: Letters 1-58

Letters, Volume I: Letters 1-58

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674992092
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1926
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #190
Edition description: 4th printing/1st pub.1926/index
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Foreword

Prefatory Note

Introduction—

I. Life Of St. Basil

1. Early Life And Education

2. Basil And Monasticism

3. The Priesthood

4. Basil And Arianism

5. Basil As Archbishop

II. Some Important Works Of St. Basil.

III. St. Basil's Letters

IV. Table Of Dates

V. Bibliography


1. Manuscripts

2. Editions

3. Translations Of The Letters

4. Miscellaneous Works On St. Basil.

VI. The Letters Of St. Basil Arranged In Parallel Columns According To The Benedictine And The Older Numbering.

VII. The Letters Of St. Basil Arranged In Parallel Columns According To The Older And The Benedictine Numbering


Letter

I. To Eustathius, The Philosopher.

II. Basil To Gregory

III. To Candidianus

IV. To Olympius

Letter

V. To Nectarius, In Consolation

VI. To The Wife Of Nectarius, In Consolation

VII. To Gregory, My Comrade

VIII. An Apology To The Caesarians For His Withdrawal, And A Treatise On Faith.

IX. To Maximus, The Philosopher

X. To A Widow

XI. Without Address; For Friendship's Sake.

XII. To Olympius

XIII. To Olympius

XIV. To Gregory, A Friend

XV. To Arcadius, Imperial Treasurer

XVI. Against Eunomius, The Heretic

XVII. To Origen

XVIII. To Macarius And John

XIX. To Gregory, A Friend

XX. To The Sophist Leontius

XXI. To The Sophist Leontius

XXII. Without Address; On The Perfection Of The Monastic Life

XXIII. An Admonition To A Monk

XXIV. To Athanasius, Father Of Athanasius, Bishop Of Ancyra

XXV. To Athanasius, Bishop Of Ancyra

XXVI. To Caesarius, The Brother Of Gregory

XXVII. To Eusebius, Bishop Of Samosata

XXVIII. To The Church Of Neocaesarea. Consolatory

XXIX. To The Church At Ancyra. Consolatory.

XXX. To Eusebius, Bishop Of Samosata

XXXI. To Eusebius, Bishop Of Samosata

XXXII. To Sophronius, The Master Letter

XXXIII. To Aburgius

XXXIV. To Eusebius, Bishop Of Samosata

XXXV. Without Address, In Behalf Of Leontius

XXXVI. Without Address, Asking Assistance.

XXXVII. Without Address, In Behalf Of A Foster Brother

XXXVIII. To Gregory His Brother; On The Difference Between Substance And Person

XXXIX. Julian To Basil

XL. Julian To Basil

XLI. Basil To Julian, A Reply To The Preceding

XLII. To Chilo, His Pupil

XLIII. Admonition To The Young

XLIV. To A Fallen Monk

XLV. To A Fallen Monk

XLVI. To A Fallen Virgin

XLVII. To Friend Gregory

XLVIII. To Eusebius, Bishop Of Samosata

XLIX. To Bishop Arcadius

L. To Bishop Innocentius

LI. To Bishop Bosporius

LII. To The Canonicae

LIII. To The Chorepiscopi

LIV. To The Chorepiscopi

LV. To Paregorius, The Presbyter

LVI. To Pergamius

LVII. To Meletius, Bishop Of Antioch

LVIII. To Gregory, His Brother

Index Of Proper Names

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