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Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems: Concerning His Own Affairs, Concerning Himself and the Bishops, Concerning His Own Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Raised in a multi-generational Christian family, Gregory of Nazianzus was also well-educated, well-traveled, and tutored in almost every discipline of the Greek arts, philosophies, sciences, and literatures. Among his studies must have included Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius of Rhodes, Thucydides, Plutarch, Herodotus, Lucian, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle—the list goes on. The numerous poems written by...

Zeuxis, Polycleitus or Euphranor57 who depict living figures with simple colors, but someone who uses florid and variegated hues to produce forms without vitality? Callimachus and Calais58 were like that I think, [745] in their labored attempts to give us images of images. So indeed is every flamboyant performer. It is because of the standards you adopt that you have grown tired looking for a bishop. But your efforts have been so puny that I blush for them. You’ve been considering a bishop as you
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