In the recently published Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature, A. Louth (2004: 297) is fortunately aware of Gregory’s poetry; but in a 538-page volume devoted to early Christian literature one would expect something more than a single paragraph, general in content, discussing a corpus of 17,000 Christian verses. However, space was probably granted according to teach text’s significance: Louth says that ‘taking a variety of classical forms, and demonstrating considerable skill, they [Gregory’s poems] are difficult, and may not be our taste, but they impressed his contemporaries enough for a whole book of the Palatine Anthology (Book 8) to be devoted to his poems’. But Book 8 of the Palatine Anthology should be attributed to Gregory’s high esteem in Byzantium rather than to the impression his epigrams had on his contemporaries.

CHRISTOS SIMELIDIS, SELECTED POEMS OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS: A CRITICAL EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY, 21.