5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Abbreviations XI
5. Introduction: Biography and Panegyric 1
6. 1. Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus 29
7. 2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus 52
8. 3. Form and Meaning: The Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii 72
9. 4. Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life 89
10. 5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography 110
11. 6. Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great 140
12. 7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great 160
13. 8. Eros Transformed: Same-Sex Love and Divine Desire. Reflections on the Erotic Vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Speech on St. Basil the Great 180
14. 9. The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius 194
15. 10. Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy 209
16. 11. The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism 255
17. Contributors 273
18. General Index 277
19. Index Locorum 283