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  • Gregory of Nazianzus: Autobiographical Poems

    Gregory of Nazianzus by Gregory of Nazianzus; White, Carolinne;

    Autobiographical Poems

    Series: Cambridge Medieval Classics; 6;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 5 December 1996

    • ISBN 9780521472814
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages216 pages
    • Size 224x143x18 mm
    • Weight 417 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Greek text and facing-page translation of a selection of Gregory of Nazianzus's poems.

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    Long description:

    The autobiographical poems of Gregory of Nazianzus, fourth-century Father of the Greek church, are remarkable not only for a highly individual picture of the Byzantine world but also for moments that are intimate, passionate, and moving. The book contains Greek text and facing English translation of a selection from his one hundred or so surviving poems. Gregory is best known for the five orations he gave in Constantinople but, De Vita Sua apart, his poems can only be read in a nineteenth-century Greek edition and have never before been translated into English. The selected poems highlight Gregory's spiritual outlook and also his poetics; Gregory shows his expertise in a variety of metres and literary dialects, deriving from his knowledge of classical Greek literature. The substantial introduction provides biographical information against which to set the poems, focusing particularly on the years which Gregory spent in Constantinople.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction; 1. To his own verses (II.1.39); 2. Concerning his own life (II.1.11); 3. Complaint concerning his own calamities (II.1.19); 4. On silence at the time of fasting (II.1.34); Epitaph and synopsis of his life (II.1.92).

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