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.
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