Basil the Great was born ca. 330 CE 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 and elsewhere to learn how to lead a pious and ascetic life;
but he decided that communal monastic life and work were best.
About 360 he founded in Pontus a convent to which his sister and
widowed mother belonged. Ordained a presbyter in 365, in 370 he
succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea, which included
authority over all Pontus. He died in 379. Even today his reform of
monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic
monasteries.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Basil's "Letters" is in
four volumes.
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