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THE LETTERS OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS - (B.K.) Storin (trans.) Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection. The Complete Translation. Pp. xiv + 234. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Paper, £29, US$34.95 (Cased, £78, US$95). ISBN: 978-0-520-30412-3.

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(B.K.) Storin (trans.) Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection. The Complete Translation. Pp. xiv + 234. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Paper, £29, US$34.95 (Cased, £78, US$95). ISBN: 978-0-520-30412-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2020

Jennifer Nimmo Smith
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The Classical Review , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , October 2020 , pp. 370 - 372
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1 Summarised for the possible ‘editions’ of the sermons in V. Somers, Histoire de collections complètes des Discours de Grégoire de Nazianze (1997), pp. 82–6, with Mossay, J., ‘Le “Discours” 10 de Grégoire de Nazianze. Notes et Controverses’, Byzantion 70 (2000), 447–55Google Scholar. The rhetoric of the works themselves with Gregory's poetry have been much analysed by Elm, S. and McLynn, N. among many others as listed in S., ‘In a Silent Way: Asceticism and Literature in the Rehabilitation of Gregory of Nazianzus’, J.E.C.S. 19 (2011), 225–57, at 237–8, n. 54Google Scholar, and ‘Autohagiobiography: Gregory of Nazianzus among His Biographers’, Studies in Late Antiquity 1 (2017), 254–81, at 257–8, n. 7CrossRefGoogle Scholar, to which should be added ‘Word Games in Late Antique Cappadocia: Gregory Nazianzen's Art of Quotation’, in N. McLynn, T. Nishimura & M. Takahashi (edd.), Vocabulary and Style in Classical Antiquity (2000), pp. 35–58.

2 Trans. Deferrari, R.J., Saint Basil, the Letters, 1–58, Loeb Classical Library, vol. 1 (1926), p. 7Google Scholar. McLynn, N., ‘Gregory Nazianzen's Basil: the Literary Construction of a Christian Friendship’, SP 37 (2001), 178–93, p. 188, with n. 38Google Scholar, speculates that, despite its bulk, it might have been included in Gregory's collection.