Symeon the Holy Fool |
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Acknowlegments |
![]() | 1. Leontius of Neapolis and Seventh-Century Cyprus |
• | The Life of Symeon and Seventh-century Cyprus |
• | The Urban Context |
• | Religious Life |
• | Leontius of Neapolis |
• | Notes |
![]() | 2. Leontius and his Sources |
• | Leontius’s Claims Concerning Sources |
• | The Nature of a Possible Written Source |
• | Dating the Material in the Second Half of the Life |
• | Leontius’s Versions and the Structure of the Life |
• | A Possible Written Source |
• | The Armenian Synaxary and the Life of Symeon |
• | Notes |
![]() | 3. Symeon and Late Antique Hagiography |
• | Common Hagiographical Patterns in the Life of Symeon |
• | Symeon’s Behavior and Ascetic Practice |
• | Symeon’s Shamelessness and Leontius’s Apologetics |
• | Symeon’s Shamelessness in Byzantine Tradition |
• | Notes |
![]() | 4. Holy Fools and Secret Saints |
• | The Word Salos and Holy Folly |
• | The Theme of Concealed Sanctity |
• | Notes |
![]() | 5. Diogenes in Late Antiquity |
• | The Survival of Diogenes Traditions in Late Antiquity |
• | Attitudes toward Diogenes |
• | Ambivalence Beyond the Fourth Century |
• | Notes |
![]() | 6. Symeon and the Cynics |
• | Symeon and the Cynics |
• | Defecation in Public |
• | Eating Lupines |
• | Eating Raw Meat |
• | A Saint and His Dog |
• | Cynics and Madness |
• | Evaluating the Cynics |
• | Notes |
![]() | 7. Symeon in Emesa, Jesus in Jerusalem |
• | Jesus as a Model for Symeon the Fool |
• | The Entry into Emesa |
• | Implicit Christology |
• | Symeon in the City |
• | Symeon and the Poor |
• | Symeon and Religious Conformity |
• | Notes |
![]() | 8. Conclusion: Cynics, Christians, and Holy Fools |
• | Notes |
![]() | THE LIFE OF SYMEON THE FOOL by Leontius of Neapolis |
• | I |
• | II |
• | III |
• | IV |
• | Notes |
![]() | Bibliography |
• | Primary Sources |
• | Secondary Sources |