PSCO		Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar in its thirty-sixth year under the auspices of The University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies Box 36 College Hall, Philadelphia 19104
Next Event Current Topic Schedule Who We Are Contacts History Archives Map 1998-1999		Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley "Gregory of Nazianzus on the Bishop: Imagining an Ideal -- Orations 1-3, 6, and 42+ 43" THE SIXTH MEETING OF 1998-99 will be held on Thursday, April 22nd from 7-9 pm in the Lounge on the second floor of Logan Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. Persons wishing to dine with other participants prior to the meeting should meet at 6 pm at Logan Hall (southeast of Locust Walk and 36th Street Walk). Take-out food (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) will be provided. Cost is $7 per person. Please RSVP to either chairperson (adresses above), if possible, so that we might have a rough idea of how much food to arrange. Recommended Readings S. Elm, Virgins of God, Oxford, 1994. Part I: Asia Minor. M. Gleason, Making Men, Princeton, 1994. Gregorian orations 1-3, 6 and 42+43. J.F. Matthews, Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, Oxford, 1975. R. Van Dam, "Self-Representation in the Will of Gregory of Nazianzus," JThS n.s. 46 1995, 118-148. Also recall suggested readings from Vasiliki Limberis, in the opening session of PSCO-36: Benoit Bain, "L'eglise de Cappadoce au IVe siecle d'apres la correspondance de Basile de Cesaree," Orientalia Christian Analecta 225 (1985). Thomas Kopecek,"The Cappadocian Fathers and Civic Patriotism" Church History 43 (1974), 293-303. Philip Rousseau, Basil of Caesarea University of California Press, 1994. Raymond Van Dam, "Emperor, Bishops, and Friends in Late Antique Cappadocia," JTS 37(1986) 53-76. 1/15/1999 Jay Treat