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Course A107: From Late Antiquity to Byzantium

Holy men: Pagan and Christian

Sources

C. White, Early Christian Lives (Penguin, 1998) 6 saints, eastern and western
There are several WWW bibliographies of Saints:
  • Societé des Bollandistes
  • Alice-Mary Talbot, Survey of Translations of Byzantine Saints' Lives
  • Paul Halsall 

  • Western

  • Gregory of Tours, Life of the Fathers trans. E. James (Liverpool, 1991
  • - Glory of the Confessors trans. R. van Dam (Liverpool, 1988)
  • - Glory of the Martyrs trans. R. van Dam (Liverpool, 1988)
  • R van Dam, Saints and their miracles in Late Antique Gaul (Princeton, 1993), includes translations of Gregory's Lives of Julian and Martin, Fortunatus' Life of Hilary
  • Caesarius of Arles, Life, Testament, Letters , trans. William Klingshirn (Liverpool, 1994)
  • Eastern

  • Athanasius, Life of Antony
  • On its influence: Augustine, Confessions 8.6
  • E. Dawes and N.H.Baynes trans.,Three Byzantine Saints, (London 1948, reissued as a paperback in 1977, 1996): Daniel the Stylite , Theodore of Sykeon , John the Almsgiver
  • Mark The Deacon, Life of Porphyry of Gaza
  • I. & N. P. Sevcenko, The Life of St. Nicholas of Sion (Brookline 1984)
  • Pagan

  • Plotinus, On Beauty
  • Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists Loeb ed.
  • Marinus Life of Proclus, trans. K. S. Guthrie (Grand Rapids 1986), or online
  • Damascius, The philosophical history, Text, trans. and comm. Polymnia Athanassiadi (Athens Apamea Cultural Association, 1999).
  • Porphyry, On abstinence from killing animals, translated by Gillian Clark (London, 2000)
  • Iamblichus, De mysteriis, translated with an introduction and notes by E. C. Clarke, J. M. Dillon, and J. P. Hershbell (Atlanta, 2003)

  • Studies

    The Holy man

  • P. R. L. Brown, 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity', Journal of Roman Studies 61, 1971, 80-101, (reprinted in id. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity [London 1982])
  • id. , "Arbiters of the Holy: The Christian Holy Man in Late Antiquity," in idem, Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Cambridge, 1995)
  • J. Howard-Johnston and P.A.  Hayward, edd., The cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages: essays on the contribution of Peter Brown (Oxford, 1999)K. Mills and A. Grafton, Conversion in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages : seeing and believing (Rochester, N.Y., 2003)
  • Ra‘anan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed , edd., Heavenly realms and earthly realities in late antique religions (Cambridge, 2004)
     
  • Paganism

  • G. Fowden, 'The pagan holy man in late antique society', JHS 102 (1982) 33 - 59
  • - TheEgyptian Hermes: a historical approach to the late pagan mind (Cambridge 1986)
  • P. Chuvin, A Chronicle of the last pagans (Harvard, 1990)
  • P. Athanassiadi, 'Persecution and response in late paganism: the evidence of Damascius', JHS 113 (1993), 1-29
  • G. W. Bowersock, Hellenism in Late Antiquity (Ann Arbor, 1990)
  • R. J. Penella, Greek philosophers and sophists in the fourth century A.D.; studies in Eunapius of Sardis (Leeds, 1990)
  • R. R. R. Smith, 'Late Roman philosopher portraits from Aphrodisias', JRS 80 (1990), 127-155
  • F. R. Trombley, Hellenic Religion and christianization (Leiden, 1993)
  • P. Athanassiadi and M. Frede edd., Pagan monotheism in late antiquity (Oxford, 1999)
  • James J. O'Donnell, ' The Demise of paganism ' www publication
  • E. Watts, 'Justinian, Malalas and the end of Athenian Philosophical Teaching in A.D. 529', JRS 94 (2004), 168-182
  • id. 'Where to live the philosophical life in the sixth century? Damascius, Simplicius, and the return from Persia', GRBS 45 (2005), 285-315
  • Andrew Smith ed, The philosopher and society in late antiquity : essays in honour of Peter Brown ( Swansea, 2005)

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