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Originally Posted by andrewcriddle
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Originally Posted by Roger Pearse
Hagiography does start with Athanasius' life of Paul, or so I gather. Earlier texts were not written with those ideas in mind. The acts of the martyrs tended to be the court record (acta) with a few additional comments. Of course such texts could be reworked or interpolated later, once the boom in fiction began.
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Hi Roger
I think you mean Athanasius' life of Anthony.
(Jerome later wrote a life of Paul the First Hermit a legendary account of an older contemporary of Anthony.)
Andrew Criddle |
Whoops. Correct. Thanks for the correction.
09-05-2013, 01:45 PM
