ECST 770 Seminar: Theodoret of Cyrrhus
The course will focus on the way a rounded understanding of Theodoret's varied career and output helps us achieve a clearer sense of the 400-45 (roughly) "shape" of the increasingly Christianized empire. We shall devote most textual attention to both the Historia religiosa and the Cure for Hellenic Maladies and to their apparent but misleading differences. They are both available in modern English translations. All graduate students are welcome to take the course: a knowledge of ancient languages (obligatory only for students in the Early Christian Studies and Greek and Latin M.A./Ph.D. programs) will be neither required nor essential to a full engagement with the material.