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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2009
      December 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511519673
      9780521472814
      9780521020916
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519673
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.417kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.29kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Theology
      Series:
      Cambridge Medieval Classics (6)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Theology
    Series:
    Cambridge Medieval Classics (6)
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    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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