This volume has the great merit of presenting Gregory Nazianzen’s letter collection as a collection. Where scholars have traditionally directed their attention to individual items contained within it, to reconstruct Gregory’s activities during the 360s, 370s, and above all the fraught two-year period between summer 381 and autumn 383, Storin focuses on the second life that Gregory found for these documents by reissuing them for the ostensible benefit of his great-nephew. Nicobulus was a student in Cappadocian Caesarea, but Storin sees in the anthology much more than merely a supplementary textbook for epistolography classes; here the collection is weaponized, to dazzle those reading over Nicobulus’ shoulders (four members of the cultural elite of Caesarea are identified in particular) with compelling claims not only to Gregory’s supremacy in eloquence, but also to a philosophical integrity that rendered irrelevant his episcopal misadventures in Constantinople, and furthermore to first place in the now-sainted...

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