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7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great

  • David Konstan
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Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity
This chapter is in the book Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity
© 2010 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2010 University of California Press, Berkeley

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
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925052-010

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
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