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Life of St. Anthony
A formative monastic biography presenting ascetic struggle, spiritual warfare, and disciplined holiness.
Athanasiusmid 4th century4th century
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- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Biography
- Tradition
- Eastern
- Region
- Alexandria
- Original language
- Greek
- Date certainty
- Range
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Manuscript context
This text is represented here through direct Greek witness material associated with Athanasius and its circulation in Alexandria.
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Controversies
- Arian controversy
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Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
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web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Original language witnesses
Witness status: Direct witness
Greek source text from Greek Wikisource fixed revision.
Open normalized witness textΒίος και πολιτεία του αγίου Αντωνίου (Greek Wikisource)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0