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Life of Antony

Bios kai Politeia tou Antoniou

A biography of the desert hermit Antony, portraying his decades of solitary ascetic struggle against demonic temptation, became the founding text of Christian monastic biography and spread the ideal of desert monasticism across the Mediterranean world.

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