Gregory of Nazianzus

Autobiographical Poems

Gregory of Nazianzus author Carolinne White editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Dec '96

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

This book contains Greek text and facing English translation of a selection from the surviving autobiographical poems of Gregory of Nazianzus. It is the first English translation of the texts.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.

ISBN: 9780521472814

Dimensions: 224mm x 143mm x 18mm

Weight: 417g

216 pages