The Greek Historia monachorum in Aegypto and Athanasius’ Life of Antony
In: Vigiliae ChristianaeAbstract
This article examines possible literary sources underlying the Greek Historia monachorum in Aegypto, which was composed anonymously in the last decade of the fourth century, and argues that the Life of Antony, which Athanasius had released some forty years earlier, exercised a demonstrable influence over it.
