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The Church Fathers · c. 400–410
The Hymns
Synesius of Cyrene · c. 373–c. 414
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What it is
Philosophical hymns by a Neoplatonist landowner who accepted a bishopric on the condition that he need not pretend to believe everything expected of him.
Why it lasted
The strangest career among the fathers, and poetry in which Christian and Platonist language are still not fully distinguished.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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