Letters

Written about 330 to 356, perhaps in Inner Mountain of Antony (Mount Colzim), now Monastery of Saint Antony, Red Sea, Egypt. The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

Seven letters to monks on knowing oneself and returning to God.

Letter · first written in Coptic (survive in Georgian, Latin and Arabic) · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written not sure: Rubenson, The Letters of St Antony (1995), who defends them as his; Antony died in 356
Place written not sure: Antony lived at his Inner Mountain from about 313 (Life of Antony 49-51); the letters do not say