Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection: The Complete Translation by Bradley K. Storin

Author:Bradley K. Storin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520304109
Publisher: University of California Press

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1. For Prohaersius, see Gr. Naz., Epit. 5; for his education broadly, see Gr. Naz., Ep. 30.2; Carm. 2.1.11.211–20; Or. 43.15–23. At Athens, Gregory formed some of his most enduring friendships: see Gr. Naz., Ep. 30–36, 80, 87, 92, to Philagrius; 21–22, 29, 37, 39, 93, 135, to Sophronius; 189–91, to Eustochius; 67–69, to Julian; 1–2, 4–6, 8, 19, 40, 45–50, 58–60, 245–246, 248, to Basil. That Basil studied with Prohaeresius and Himerius, see Philip Rousseau, Basil of Caesarea, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 20 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 31–32.

2. On this event, see Gr. Naz., Ep. 8.1; Or. 1.1, 2.6, 3.2; Carm. 2.1.11.337–85.

3. The letter collection offers the names of several possible students—Evagrius, Sacerdos, Pronoius, Nicobulus—although it is possible that several other couriers were his students. See Neil McLynn, “Among the Hellenists: Gregory and the Sophists,” in Gregory of Nazianzus: Images and Reflections, ed. Jostein Børtnes and Tomas Hägg (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006), 213–38. On Gregory’s activities during the early years after his ordination, see the various episodes discussed by Marie-Ange Calvet-Sébasti, Grégoire de Nazianze: Discours 6–12, Sources chrétiennes 405 (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1995), 11–36; Susanna Elm, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 49 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012); McLynn, “Gregory the Peacemaker: A Study of Oration Six,” Kyoyo-Ronso 101 (1996): 183–216.

4. See Bradley K. Storin, Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus’s Epistolary Biography, Christianity in Late Antiquity 6 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019), 150–56; Neil McLynn, “Gregory Nazianzen’s Basil: The Literary Construction of a Christian Friendship,” Studia Patristica 37 (2001): 178–93.

5. The nature of the dispute remains obscure: see Gr. Naz., Ep. 16–19; Or. 43.28.

6. See Gr. Naz., Ep. 40–46; Or. 43.37.

7. See Bas., Ep. 58, with Rousseau, Basil of Caesarea, 145, 148–49, which highlights the dismissiveness of Bas., Ep. 56, 289. See Gr. Naz., Ep. 45.2 for Basil’s partisans; Bas., Ep. 99, 223 for evidence of antipathy toward his episcopacy.

8. On the division of Cappadocia, see Noel Lenski, Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century a.d., Transformation of the Classical Heritage 34 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 285.

9. See Gr. Naz., Ep. 48–50; Or. 9, 11–13; Carm. 2.1.11.430–48, 460–75. On Gregory’s reaction to Basil’s fiat and their ultimate compromise, see Storin, Self-Portrait in Three Colors, 6–7.

10. For his father, see Gr. Naz., Or. 18 and Epig. 12–23; for his mother, Nonna, Gr. Naz., Epig. 24–74; for his brother Caesarius, Gr. Naz., Or. 7 and Epig. 85–86, 88–99; for his sister Gorgonia, Gr. Naz., Or. 8 and Epig. 101–3.

11. See Gr. Naz., Carm. 2.1.11.547–51; also Stephen Davis, The Cult of Saint Thecla: A Tradition of Women’s Piety in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 3–80.

12. See Gustave Bardy, “Le concile d’Antioche (379),” Revue Benedictine 45 (1933): 196–213. Several of Gregory’s acquaintances attended, including Gregory of Nyssa, Eusebius of Samosata, Diodore of Tarsus, and Meletius of Antioch: see the Verona Codex (PL 13:353D–354A) and Gr.

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