Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Select Bibliography
Introduction
Rufinus’s Life and Writings
The Anonymous Greek Historia monachorum and Rufinus’s Latin Historia monachorum
The New Prophets and Apostles
The Egyptian Monks as Redeemers
Evagius of Pontus and his Teachings in the LHM
About This Translation
Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt
Prologue
Chapter 1: John of Lycopolis
Chapter 2: Or
Chapter 3: Ammon
Chapter 4: Bes
Chapter 5: Oxyrhynchus
Chapter 6: Theon
Chapter 7: Apollo
Chapter 8: Amoun
Chapter 9: Copres
Chapter 10: Sourous
Chapter 11: Helle
Chapter 12: Elias
Chapter 13: Pityrion
Chapter 14: Eulogius
Chapter 15: Apelles and John
Chapter 16: Paphnutius
Chapter 17: Isidore’s Monastery
Chapter 18: Sarapion
Chapter 19: Apollonius
Chapter 20: Dioscorus
Chapter 21: Nitria
Chapter 22: Kellia
Chapter 23: Ammonius
Chapter 24: Didymus
Chapter 25: Cronius (Cronides)
Chapter 26: Origen
Chapter 27: Evagrius
Chapter 28: Macarius of Egypt
Chapter 29: Macarius of Alexandria
Chapter 30: Amoun of Nitria
Chapter 31: Paul the Simple
Chapter 32: Piammon (Piammonas)
Chapter 33: John of Diolcos
Epilogue
Indices
General Index
Index of Holy Scripture
Index of Greek and Latin Words and Phrases
Index of Other Ancient Sources