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Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Hardcover)
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Hardcover: 196 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (18 Jan 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0520089111
ISBN-13: 978-0520089112
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.3 x 2 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,091,895 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis
This study of Leontius of Neapolis fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual and social environment in which the "Life of Symeon the Fool" was created and opens a window onto the Christian religious imagination at the end of late antiquity. The book explores the concept of holy folly by relating Symeon's life to the gospels, to earlier hagiography and to anecdotes about Diogenes the Cynic.