Letters, Volume II - Letters 59–185

About the author

Roy Joseph Deferrari (1890–1969) was Professor of Classics at the Catholic University of America.

Summary

Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries.

Product details

• Authors: Basil, St Basil, St.Basil
• Assisted by: R.J. Deferrari (Translation), Roy J. Deferrari (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1928
• EAN: 9780674992375
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99237-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 117 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 356 g
• Illustrations: Index
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews