27. St. Methodius: The Symposium: A Treatise on Chastity

by St. Methodius and Methodius of Olympus

The Symposium, or Banquet, is a dialogue in imitation of Plato, written by Methodius, a teacher and probably a bishop, who flourished in Lycia during the period known as the "little peace of the church." It is perhaps the most beautiful symbolic prose-poem of the early patristic period. +

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809101432
• ISBN13: 9780809101436
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Newman Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"