Popular Patristics Series

Yes, I'm still doing a deep dive into the writings of the Christian Church Fathers, this time through buying/reading several volumes of the Popular Patristics Series.  As is the norm for series, I will list in italics books owned but not yet read and bold the ones that I've read.  I'm cautiously optimistic that I will have time later this summer to write essays on at least a few of these, perhaps on a different blog than this venerable one.  

Total through 5/12/2024:  32 books owned.

1. On the Priesthood by St. John Chrysostom
2. Lectures on the Christian Sacraments by St. Cyril of Jerusalem (discontinued)
3. On the Divine Images by St. John of Damascus (discontinued)
4. On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius (discontinued)
5. On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil the Great (discontinued)
6. On the Holy Icons by St. Theodore the Studite
7. On Marriage and Family Life by St. John Chrysostom
8. On the Divine Liturgy by St. Germanus of Constantinople
9. On Wealth and Poverty by St. John Chrysostom (2nd edition published 2020)
10. Hymns on Paradise by St. Ephrem the Syrian
11. On Ascetical Life by St. Isaac of Nineveh
12. On the Soul and Resurrection by St. Gregory of Nyssa
13. On the Unity of Christ by St. Cyril of Alexandria
14. On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses, vol. 1: The Church and The Last Things by St. Symeon the New Theologian
15. On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses, vol. 2: On Virtue and Christian Life by St. Symeon the New Theologian
16. On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses, vol. 3: Life, Times, and Theology by St. Symeon the New Theologian
17. On the Apostolic Preaching by St. Irenaeus of Lyons
18. On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies
19. On the Mother of God by Jacob of Serug
20. On Pascha by Melito of Sardis (discontinued)
21. On God and Man: The Theological Poetry of St. Gregory of Nazianzus
22. On the Apostolic Tradition by St. Hippolytus (discontinued)
23. On God and Christ, The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius by St. Gregory of Nazianzus
24. Three Treatises on the Divine Images by St. John of Damascus (new translation, replaces volume 3)
25. On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ by St. Maximus the Confessor
26. Letters from the Desert by St. Barsanuphius and John
27. Four Desert Fathers – Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria
28. Saint Macarius the Spiritbearer: Coptic Texts Relating to Saint Macarius the Great
29. On the Lord’s Prayer by Tertullian, St. Cyprian, & Origen
30. On the Human Condition by St. Basil the Great
31. The Cult of the Saints by St. John Chrysostom
32. On the Church: Select Treatises by St. Cyprian of Carthage
33. On the Church: Select Letters by St. Cyprian of Carthage
34. The Book of Pastoral Rule by St. Gregory the Great
35. Wider Than Heaven: Eighth-century Homilies on the Mother of God
36. Festal Orations by St. Gregory of Nazianzus
37. Counsels on the Spiritual Life, Volumes One and Two by St. Mark the Monk
38. On Social Justice by St. Basil the Great
39. Harp of Glory (Enzira Sebhat): An Alphabetical Hymn of Praise for the Ever-Blessed Virgin Mary from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
40. Divine Eros: Hymns of Saint Symeon the New Theologian
41. On the Two Ways: Life or Death, Light or Darkness: Foundational Texts in the Tradition
42. On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil the Great (new translation, replaces volume 5)
43. Works on the Spirit by St. Athanasius the Great and Didymus the Blind
44. On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius the Great (new translation, replaces volume 4; available in Greek and English (44A) or English only (44B); own both)
45. Treasure-house of Mysteries: Exploration of the Sacred Text Through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition
46. Poems on Scripture by St. Gregory of Nazianzus
47. On Christian Doctrine and Practice St. Basil the Great
48. Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord
49. The Letters by St. Ignatius of Antioch
50. On Fasting and Feasts by St. Basil the Great
51. On Christian Ethics by St. Basil the Great
52. Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers
53. Two Hundred Chapters On Theology by St. Maximus the Confessor
54. On the Apostolic Tradition (Second Edition) by St. Hippolytus (replaces volume 22)
55. On Pascha (Second Edition) by Melito of Sardis (replaces volume 20)
56. Letters to Saint Olympia by St. John Chrysostom
57. Lectures on the Christian Sacraments (Second Edition) by St. Cyril of Jerusalem (replaces volume 2)
58. The Testament of the Lord: Worship and Discipline in the Early Church
59. On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy: A Theological Vision of the Liturgy by St. Maximus the Confessor
60. Catechetical Discourse: A Handbook for Catechists by St. Gregory of Nyssa
61. Hymns of Repentance by St. Romanos the Melodist
62. On the Orthodox Faith: Volume 3 of the Fount of Knowledge by St. John of Damascus
63. Headings on Spiritual Knowledge: The Second Part, Chapters 1-3 by St. Isaac of Nineveh
64. On Death and Eternal Life by St. Gregory of Nyssa
65. The Prayers of Saint Sarapion: The Bishop of Thmuis

 

Loeb Classical Library: Books Owned

 I’ve been spending quite a bit of time the past two months working on improving on my college Latin (and teaching myself Attic Greek) and the Loeb Classical Library, with its parallel original/English translated text, has been a great use for me.  Since there are over 500 volumes in the series (and newer, revised translations are being released under the old series numbers or occasionally renumbered and/or divided), I think I will list the books I currently own, with the series number beside them (most of these are newish, but some are older editions I’ve bought over the years), and just add more as I buy more.  As is the norm with me, I’ll bold the books already finished, but the unread books that I own will appear in regular style instead of in italics like I normally do when listing books in a series.

9/14/2023 Update:  80 total volumes (44 Latin, 36 Greek)

1    Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica (Greek)

2    Appian I:  Roman History, Volume I (Greek)

3    Appian II:  Roman History, Volume II (Greek)

4    Appian III:  Roman History, Volume III (Greek)

5    Appian IV:  Roman History, Volume IV:  Civil Wars Books 1-2 (Greek)

6    Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris (Latin)

7    Cicero I:  Letters to Atticus I (Latin)

10  Euripides IV:  Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion (Greek)

11  Euripides V:  Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes (Greek)

15  Petronius, Satyricon; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (Latin)

16  Philostratus I:  Apollonius of Tyana, Volume I:  Books 1-4 (Greek)

17  Philostratus II:  Apollonius of Tyana, Volume II:  Books 5-8 (Greek)

19  Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica (Greek)

20  Sophocles I:  Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus (Greek)

21  Sophocles II:  Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus (Greek)

23 Terence II:  Phormio, The Mother-in-Law, the Brothers (Latin)

24  The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Greek)

25  The Apostolic Fathers, Volume II (Greek)

26  Augustine I: Confessions I:  Books 1-8 (Latin)

27  Augustine II: Confessions II:  Books 9-13 (Latin)

30  Cicero XXI:  On Duties (Latin)

31  Suetonius I:  Lives of the Caesars Books 1-4 (Latin)

32  Dio Cassius I:  Roman History, Volume I:  Books 1-11 (Greek)

33  Horace, Odes and Epodes (Latin)

34  John Damascene, Barlaam and Ioasaph (Greek)

35  Tacitus I:  Agricola; Germania; Dialogus (Latin)

36  Plato I:  Euthphro, Apology, Crido, Phaedo (Greek)

37  Dio Cassius II:  Roman History, Volume II (Greek)

38  Suetonius II:  Lives of the Caesars Books 5-8 (Latin)

39  Caesar II:  Civil War (Latin)

41  Ovid I:  Heroides, Amores (Latin)

42  Ovid III:  Metamorphoses Books 1-8 (Latin)

43  Ovid IV:  Metamorphoses Books 9-15 (Latin)

44  Apuleius I:  Metamorphoses Books 1-6 (Latin)

46  Plutarch I:  Lives, Volume I (Greek)

48  Procopius I:  History of the Wars, Volume I (Greek)

57  Hesiod I:  Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia (Greek)

58  Marcus Aurelius (Greek)

63  Virgil I:  Ecologues, Georgics, Aeneid Books 1-6 (Latin)

64  Virgil II:  Aeneid Books 7-12, The Minor Poems (Latin)

72  Caesar I:  The Gallic War (Latin)

73  Aristotle XIX:  Nicomachean Ethics (Greek)

74  Boethius, Theological Tractates, The Consolation of Philosophy (Latin)

81  Procopius II:  History of the Wars, Volume II (Greek)

90  Xenophon III:  Anabasis (Greek)

91  Juvenal and Perseus (Latin)

92  Clement of Alexandria (Greek)

104 Homer I:  Odyssey I:  Books 1-12 (Greek)

105 Homer II:  Odyssey II: Books 13-24 (Greek)

107 Procopius III:  History of the Wars, Volume III (Greek)

108 Thucydides I:  History of the Peloponnesian War:  Books 1-2 (Greek)

111 Tacitus II:  Histories, Volume I:  Books 1-3 (Latin)

114 Livy I:  History of Rome, Books 1-2 (Latin)

116 Sallust I:  The War with Cataline; The War with Jugurtha (Latin)

117 Herodotus I:  The Persian Wars:  Books 1-2 (Greek)

124 Quintilian, The Orator’s Education:  Books 1-2 (Latin)

128 Polybius I:  The Histories, Volume I (Greek)

135 Claudian I:  Volume I (Latin)

139 David Rohrbacher (ed.), Historia Augusta, Volume I (Latin)

145 Aeschylus I:  Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound (Greek)

146 Aeschylus II;  Oresteia, Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides (Greek)

151 Ovid VI:  Tristia; Ex Ponto (Latin)

153 Eusebius I:  The Ecclesiastical History I:  Books 1-5 (Greek)

154 Cicero:  On Old Age; On Friendship; On Divination (Latin)

166 Plato III:  Lysis, Symposium, Georgia’s (Greek)

170 Homer III:  Iliad I:  Books 1-12 (Greek)

171 Homer IV:  Iliad II:  Books 13-24 (Greek)

173 Procopius IV:  History of the Wars, Volume IV (Greek)

178 Aristophanes I:  Acharnians, Knights (Greek)

179 Aristophanes III:  Birds, Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria (Greek)

180 Aristophanes IV:  Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth (Greek)

181 Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (Latin)

190 Basil I:  Letters, Volume I:  Letters 1-58 (Greek)

203 Josephus I:  The Jewish War, Books I-II (Greek)

207 Statius II:  Thebaid: Books 1-7 (Latin)

214 Seneca, Moral Essays I (Latin)

217 Procopius V:  History of the Wars, Volume V (Greek)

220 Lucan, The Civil War (Latin)

226 Philo, Volume I (Greek)

231 Florus, Epitome of Roman History (Latin)

232 Ovid II:  The Art of Love and Other Poems (Latin)

234 Plato IX:  Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles (Greek)

239 Augustine, Select Letters (Latin)

246 Bede I:  Ecclesiastical History, Volume I:  Books 1-3 (Latin)

248 Bede II:  Ecclesiastical History, Volume II:  Books 4-5; Lives of the Abbots; Letter to Egbert (Latin)

250 Tertullian, Apology,De Spectaculis; Minucius Felix, Octavius (Latin)

253 Ovid V:  Fasti (Latin)

254 Seneca, Moral Essays, Volume II (Latin)

262 Jerome, Select Letters (Latin)

265 Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History II:  Books 6-10 (Greek)

268 Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods; Academics (Latin)

290 Procopius VI: Secret History (Greek)

294 Fragmentary Republican Latin I:  Ennius, Testimona, Epic Fragments (Latin)

300 Ammianus Marcellinus I:  History, Volume I:  Books 14-19 (Latin)

333 Varro, On the Latin Language I:  Books 5-7 (Latin)

334 Varro, On the Latin Language II:  Books 8-10 and Fragments (Latin)

344 Nonnos I:  Dionysiaca:  Books 1-15 (Greek)

347 Cicero V:  Brutus, Orator (Latin)

387 Prudentius I:  Volume I (Latin)

398 Prudentius II:  Against Symmachus II; Crowns of Martyrdom; Scenes from History; Epilogue (Latin)

402 Caesar III: Alexandrian War, African War, Spanish War (Latin)

411 Augustine, City of God I:  Books 1-3 (Latin)

412 Augustine, City of God II:  Books 4-7 (Latin)

413 Augustine, City of God III:  Books 8-11 (Latin)

414 Augustine, City of God IV:  Books 12-15 (Latin)

415 Augustine, City of God V:  Books 16-18.35 (Latin)

416 Augustine, City of God VI:  Books 18.36-20 (Latin)

417 Augustine, City of God VII:  Books 21-22, Index (Latin)

450 Seneca, Natural Questions I:  Books 1-3 (Latin)

453 Apuleius II:  Metamorphoses Books 7-11 (Latin)

467 Cornelius Nepos, On Great Generals; On Historians (Latin)

488 Aristophanes II:  Clouds, Wasps, Peace (Greek)

495 Euripides VI:  Bacchae, Iphigenia at Audis, Rhesus (Greek)

496 Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (Greek)

497 Greek Epic Fragments (Greek)

498 Statius III:  Thebaid: Books 8-12, Achilleid (Latin)

534 Apuleius III:  Apologia; Florida; De deo Socratis (Latin)

552 Cato, Orations; Other Fragments (Latin)