Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man

by Patricia Cox

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First edition

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983 . First edition. Hardcover. Lg. octavo. xvi,166pp. Black and red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Using a general discussion of biography in Late Antiquity as a framework, the author studies the biographies of two holy men from the third century A.D., Eusebius's Life of Origen and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Minor scuffing and

• Binding: Hardcover

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