Letters, Volume I: Letters 1-58 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Basil the Great

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674992091
• ISBN13: 9780674992092
• Release Date: January 1926
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 6.7"