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.
St. Basil, Letters, in 4 vol. / Loeb Classical Library
Loeb Classical Library 190, Saint Basil, The Letters. In four volumes. Translated by Roy J. Deferrari.
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- Condition / Etat: very good, dust jacket with minor shelf wear / très bon état, minimes traces d'usures.
- Volumes : 4 volumes.
- Binding / Reliure : original green titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
- Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
- Pages : about 1500 pp.
- Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
- Date : 1970 - 1988.
- Language / Langue: Ancient Grec and English on opposite pages / Bilingue grec et anglais.
The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.
| Condition | D'occasion - Très bon état |
|---|---|
| Langue | Royaume-Uni |
| Illustré | Non |
| Publication Date | 1 janv. 1972 |
| Siècle | 20e siècle |
| Auteur / Cartographe / Photographe | Basile de Césarée |
| Editeur | Harvard University Press |
| Première édition | Non |
| Edition signée | Non |
| Reliure signée | Non |
| Aux armes | Non |
| Reliure / Format | Cartonné |
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