{"product_id":"9780674992375-letters-volume-ii","title":"Letters, Volume II","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLetters 59–185\u003cbr\u003eBasil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorrespondence of a Cappadocian Father.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasil  the Great was born ca. AD 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family  noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years  as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by  Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and  was then baptized. He visited monasteries in Egypt and Palestine and  sought out the most famous hermits in Syria and elsewhere to learn how  to lead a pious and ascetic life; but he decided that communal monastic  life and work were best. About 360 he founded in Pontus a convent to  which his sister and widowed mother belonged. Ordained a presbyter in  365, in 370 he succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea,  which included authority over all Pontus. He died in 379. Even today his  reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and  Slavonic monasteries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Basil’s \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e is in four volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450591326582,"sku":"9780674992375","price":24.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41162466_2a6ad5e7-ba74-4b7e-8648-88384f59f110.jpg?v=1778128370","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674992375-letters-volume-ii","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}