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Anthony Melissa

Byzantine monk
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11th century
Flourished:
c.1001 - c.1100
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Anthony Melissa (flourished 11th century) was a Byzantine monk and author whose collection of teachings and maxims taken from Sacred Scripture, early Christian writers, and secular authors promoted a popular Greek Orthodox tradition of moral–ascetical practice. Anthony, whose surname is derived from the title of his chief work, Melissa (Greek: “The Bee”), compiled an anthology based largely on two leading sources for Eastern Orthodox spirituality: the Hiera Parallēla (“Sacred Parallels”), commonly credited to the early-8th-century Greek church father John of Damascus, and the Eklogai (“Selections”), incorrectly ascribed to the 7th-century Greek master of ascetical theology, St. Maximus the Confessor. Composed ...(100 of 221 words)

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