Late Antique Historiography

Dialogue

Title(s):
  • Dialogue
  • Διάλογος ἱστορικὸς Παλλαδίου ἐπισκόπου Ἑλενουπόλεως, γενόμενος πρὸς Θεόδωρον, διάκονον Ῥώμης, περὶ βίου καὶ πολιτείας τοῦ μακαρίου Ἰωάννου, ἐπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου
    (Dialogos historikos Palladiou episkopou Helenoupoleōs, genomenos pros Theodōron, diakonon Rōmēs, peri biou kai politeias tou makariou Iōannou, episkopou Kōnstantinoupoleōs, tou Chrusostomou, Historical dialogue of Palladius, bishop of Helenopolis, which took place with Theodore, deacon of Rome, about the life and character of the blessed John, bishop of Constantinopel, called Golden Mouth.)
Author:
Period covered:
347-407
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Biography (general)
Remarks:
The work is an account of the fall of John Chrysostom, couched in the form of a dialogue between a bishop and a Roman presbyter.
Edition - Translation:
  • P.R. Coleman-Norton (1928) Palladii Dialogus de vita S. Joannis Chrysostomi. Cambridge.
  • A.M. Malingrey (1988) Palladios: Dialogue sur la vie de Jean Chrysostome. Two Volumes (Sources chrétiennes, 341-342). Paris.
  • L. Schläpfer (1966) Das Leben des heiligen Johannes Chrysostomus. Paderborn.
  • L. Dattrino (1995) Palladio di Elenopoli: Dialogo sulla vita di Giovanni Crisostomo. Rome.
  • H. Moore (1921) The dialogue of Palladius concerning the life of Chrysostom. London
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Bibliography:
  • (1979) Clavis patrum Graecorum (CPG) 6037
  • D. Katos (2011) Palladius of Helenopolis: The origenist advocate. Oxford.
  • E. Schwartz (1927) 'Palladius'. Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 36: 161-204.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (2013) 'Palladius and the Johannite schism'. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 64: 1-19.