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Funeral Orations by Saint Gregory Nazianzen and Saint Ambrose. (Fathers of the Church a New Translation Volume 22) by Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Saint Ambrose is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Christian funeral oration is one of the most elaborate of Christian literary forms. It represents an attempt to adapt to Christian use a pagan Greek form with many hundreds of years behind it. . . . The Christian masterpieces presented in this volume reflect a long, rich, and varied pagan literary tradition in East and West, and at the same time exhibit modifications and new elements which give them their specific Christian character. (From the Introduction by Martin R. P. McGuire) The volume presents the most generally admired ancient Christian funeral orations―four from the Greek (those of St. Gregory Nazianzen), four from the Latin (those of St. Ambrose of Milan). From the Bishop of Nazianzen, we have words spoken in honor of three kinsmen, his father, a brother, and a sister, and of the great St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea. Two of the orations from the lips of St. Ambrose are likewise for a kinsman, his brother Satyrus, while the other two are for wearers of the purple, the youthful Valentinian II and the emporor Theodosius. **
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- Author
- Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Saint Ambrose
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Published
- 1968
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813214023
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, History
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