The autobiographical poems of Gregory of Nazianzus, fourth-century Father of the Greek Church, are awesome not just for a hugely person photograph of the Byzantine global but in addition for moments which are intimate, passionate and relocating. This e-book comprises Greek textual content and dealing with English translation of a range from his 100 or so surviving poems. Gregory is better recognized for the 5 orations he gave in Constantinople. aside from the poem "De Vita Sua," his paintings can basically be learn in a nineteenth-century variation and hasn't ever sooner than been translated into English.
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