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Aaron 12, 19, 20, 96–100, 139 authority 26, 43, 44, 109, 116, 193, 194, Abraham 13, 61, 74, 117–18, 139 210, 221, 229 and Basil 72, 82 divine 162, 216, 220 Acts of the Apostles, The 14, 179 of biblical canon, see canon, biblical Alexander the Great 50 authorship 56, 205, 234 Alypius 151, 152–3, 173 divine 2, 47–8, 207, 234 Ambrose of Milan 155, 190 autopsy 142, 143 Antony of Egypt 105–14, 115, 136, 138, 205 Basil of Caesarea 59–60, 64–8, 72–87, and Augustine 150–1, 153–4, 155, 101–2, 225 165–72 Bible, see canon, biblical and Hilarion 129–30, 132 biography, see ‘Christian biography’ and Pachomius 118–19 Bonosus 134–5, 174 and Paul of Thebes 120–5 see also Life of Antony canon, biblical 15–16, 167, 210–13 Apollo (god) 30 authority of 2, 9, 12–14, 17, 22, 205–6, Apollo (holy man) 139–41, 184 227 Arianism 28, 33, 73–4, 80, 104, 113, 165 reliability of 56–7, 169–70, 187, 204 asceticism 20–1, 102–3, 108, 110–11, see also Scripture, interpretation of 115–17, 138, 149, 175–8 Cato the Elder 226 Augustine’s views on 161–2, 179–80 ‘Christian biography’ vii–viii, 3, 4–10, Jerome’s views on 121, 124–37 16–17, 220, 224, 231–5 Athanasius of Alexandria 20, 104–7, 114, and ‘aretalogy’ vii, 5–6 119, 124, 135, 145, 170 and classical biography vii, 5 see also Life of Antony and the gospels vii, 5 Augustine of Hippo 21–2, 149–64, and hagiography vii, 6–8, 18, 20, 102–3, 165–76, 178–80, 186–206 149, 231 as preacher 201–3 and history 4, 17–18, 23–4, 36, 88, Against the Academics 174 167–70, 228 City of God 22, 192, 196–203, 204, and martyr acts vii, 6 210–12, 219, 229 and panegyric 35–6, 51, 54 Confessions 21, 149–75, 186–9, and Scripture 142, 206–7, 208–9, 214–19, 221, 233 229–30 On Christian Teaching 205, 213–14 Claudius II Gothicus, emperor 51 On the Value of Belief 192, 194–5, 203 Constantine I, emperor 3, 4–10, 26–31, 95, On True Religion 192, 193–4, 203 101, 114, 191, 224 Retractationes 203–4, 221–2 arch of 51 see also asceticism, conversion, mausoleum of 43, 44 miracles Oration to the Assembly of the Saints Augustus, emperor 29, 40 27–31, 41, 54 260

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Constantius I, emperor 38, 52–3 Jacob 109, 111 Constantius II, emperor 104 Jerome 20, 142–4, 147, 174, 176, 180 conversion 21, 48, 131, 152–64, 177–8, as ascetic 125–7 182, 183, 234–5 Life of Hilarion 128–33, 145–6 of Augustine 152–64, 171–74, 187–8, Life of Malchus 127–8 214 Life of Paul the First Hermit 119–25, Cyrus the Great vii, 50 145 see also asceticism Daniel 225 Jesus Christ 13, 14–15, 138, 144, 195, 227, David 13 228 and Antony 113 Elijah 15, 45, 112, 120, 132, 139, 143, and Basil 85 225 and Bonosus 135 and Antony 107, 110–11, 115, 146 and Constantine 30–1, 224 and Apollo (holy man) 140 and Hilarion 128, 131–2, 146 and Basil 74, 76 and Pachomius 116–17 and Paul of Thebes 123 and Paul of Thebes 123 Elisha 107, 114, 124, 132, 225 John the Baptist 15, 120, 128, 225 Eusebius of Caesarea 17–18, 25–7, 31–6, and Basil 75–6 58–9, 191, 206, 227 and Hilarion 128 Ecclesiastical History 17, 25–6, 32, 39, and Paul of Thebes 123 53, 56, 191, 228 Life of Constantine 18, 25–7, 31–6, 95, labarum 41, 42 109, 209, 224–5, 228, 233 Licinius, emperor 41 Proof of the Gospels 43 Life of Antony 20–2, 76, 103–4, 105–14, 142, 149–50, 169, 215, 229 Gregory of Nazianzus 67, 69 as history 144–5 Gregory of Nyssa 59–60, 65–71, 96–100, reception in late antiquity 115, 119, 152, 225 165, 175–81, 183, 186–7, 232 In Praise of Basil 19, 62, 68, 71–87, 91, Life of Pachomius114–19,145,147,181–2 93–4, 225 Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus 64, 81, Marcella 135, 136, 146 83 Marcion 13–14 Life of Macrina 19, 20, 59, 68, 71, 81, Matthew, Gospel of 13, 108, 159–63, 170, 97 187, 213 Life of Moses 19–20, 60–4, 88–95, 225 Maxentius, emperor 38, 39–40 On Virginity 89 miracles 166–7, 174 Augustine’s views on 191–204 hagiography, see ‘Christian biography’ Miriam 97 history 1, 4, 25, 54 Moses 15, 82–3, 104, 116, 208, 228 sacred, see ‘sacred history’, and Antony 109 see also ‘Christian biography’ and Basil 19–20, 64–5, 74, 82–7, 91–4, History of the Monks in Egypt 137–42, 225 182, 183, 226 and Bonosus 134 and Constantine 28–9, 36–42 interpretation, see Scripture, interpretation and Gregory Thaumaturgus 64, 81 of in late antiquity 82, 87–9 Isaiah 141 Israel, nation of 1–2 Nero, emperor 51 261

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Origen of Alexandria 17, 63, 160 Ruﬁnus of Aquileia 133, 137, 138, 142, Orosius 190 190 see also History of the Monks in Egypt Pachomius, see Life of Pachomius Paul (apostle) 86, 113, 151, 153, 155, 162, ‘sacred history’ 3, 4, 22, 55, 101, 188–93, 219 211–12, 228 and Augustine 154, 159–60, 172 Samuel 79–80 and Basil 75, 80–1 Scripture, interpretation of 10–15,86,95, and Pachomius 116 110–11,161,162–3,187,218–19,221 and Paul of Thebes 123 allegorical 10–11, 19, 62–3 Paul of Concordia 133 literal 173, 230 Paul of Thebes, see Jerome, Life of Paul typological 10–15, 42, 73, 93, 170, 207, the First Hermit 226, 230–1 Paula 135, 137, 143–4, 146 Serapion of Thmuis 106–7, 114 Philo of Alexandria 62–3 Simplicianus of Milan 156–7 Plutarch vii, 5, 49 Stephen, proto-martyr 15, 201–2 Ponticianus 150–2, 164–6, 168–9, 176, Symeon Stylites 208, 223 215 providence, divine 2, 3, 25, 41, 72, 189, Theodoret of Cyrrhus 208, 209, 220 190 Religious History 180, 208–9, see also ‘sacred history’ 223–4 Theodosius I, emperor 139, 190 ‘re-enactment’ 2, 98, 142, 187, 220, 227, 231 Valens, emperor 68, 75 and typological interpretation 10 Victorinus, Marius 156–9, 162, 173 in late antiquity 3, 17, 55, 83, 135 Virgil 29–30

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