This book is the first monograph devoted to the life, work, and
thought of Palladius of Helenopolis (ca. 362-420), an important
witness of Christianity in late antiquity. Palladius' Dialogue on
the Life of St. John Chrysostom and his Lausiac History are key
sources for our knowledge of John Chrysostom's downfall and of the
Origenist controversy, and they both provide rich information
concerning many notable ecclesiastical personalities such as John
Chrysostom, Theophilus of Alexandria, Jerome, Evagrius of Pontus,
Melania the Elder, Isidore of Alexandria, and the Tall Brothers.
Demetrios S. Katos employs late antique theories of judicial
rhetoric and argumentation, theories whose significance is only now
becoming apparent to late antique scholars, to elicit new insights
from the Dialogue regarding the controversy that resulted in the
death of John Chrysostom. He also demonstrates that the Lausiac
History deliberately promoted to the imperial court of Pulcheria a
spiritual theology that was indebted to his guide Evagrius and more
broadly to the legacy of Origen, despite Jerome's recent attacks
against both. Palladius emerges from this account not merely as a
peripatetic monk, his own preferred self-portrait that has
prevailed in most modern accounts, but as an ecclesiastical
statesman who passionately supported both the causes and ideas of
his associates in the most pressing controversies of his day.
The study will also be valuable for scholars of late antiquity
working in the areas of asceticism, spirituality, pilgrimage,
hagiography, and early Christian constructions of gender, for all
of which Palladius' works are important sources.
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