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This first English translation of Leontius of Neapoliss Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the Life was created and opens a window onto the Christian religious imagination at the end of Late Antiquity. He explores the concept of holy folly by relating Symeons life to the gospels, to earlier hagiography, and to anecdotes about Diogenes the Cynic. The Life is one of the strangest works of the Late Antique hagiography. Symeon seemed a bizarre choice for sanctification, since it was through very peculiar antics that he converted heretics and reformed sinners. Symeon acted like a fool, walked about naked, ate enormous quantities of beans, and defecated in the streets. When he arrived in Emesa, Symeon tied a dead dog he found on a dunghill to his belt and entered the city gate, dragging the dog behind him. Krueger presents a provocative interpretation of how these bizarre antics came to be instructive examples to everyday Christians.

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Page ii
The Transformation of the Classical Heritage
Peter Brown, General Editor
I Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack
II Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman
III Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum
IV John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken
V Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox
VI Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau
VII Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A. E Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein
VIII Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam
IX Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton
X Procopius and the Sixth Century, by Averil Cameron
XI Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster
XII Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180-275, by Kenneth Harl
XIII Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, introduced and translated by Sebastian E Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey
XIV Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw
XV Apex Omnium: Religion in the "Res gestae" of Ammianus, by R. L. Rike
XVI Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World, by Leslie S. B. MacCoull
XVII On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, by Michele Renee Salzman
XVIII Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and "The Lives of the Eastern Saints," by Susan Ashbrook Harvey
XIX Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, by Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry
XX Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau
XXI In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The "Panegyrici Latini," introduction, translation, and historical commentary by C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers
XXII Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, by Neil B. McLynn
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XXIII Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity, by Richard Lim
XXIV The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, by Virginia Burrus
XXV Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's "Life" and the Late Antique City, by Derek Krueger
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Symeon the Holy Fool
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Symeon the Holy Fool
Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City
Derek Krueger
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press,
Ltd. London, England
1996 by the Regents of the University of California
Parts of this book were published in earlier versions.
Chapter 5: "Diogenes the Cynic among the Fourth Century Fathers," Vigiliae Christianae 47 (1993). Reprinted by permission of E. J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands.
Chapter 6: "The Life of Symeon the Fool and the Cynic Tradition," Journal of Early Christian Studies 1 (1993). Reprinted by permission of Johns Hopkins University Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Krueger, Derek.
Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city / Derek Krueger.
p. cm. (Transformation of the classical heritage; 25)
Includes English translation of the Life.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-08911-1 (alk. paper)
1. Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis, 7th century. Vita S. Symeonis Sali. 2. Simeon Salus,
Saint, ca. 522-ca. 588. 3. Christian hagiography. 4. Holy foolsBiographyHistory
and criticism. 5. CyprusHistorySources. I. Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis, 7th cen
tury. Vita S. Symeonis Sali. English. II. Title. III. Series.
BR1720.S518K78 1996
270.2'092dc20
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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