Poems

Carmina

Written about 371 to 390, probably in Nazianzus (now Bekarlar, Nenezi, Aksaray, Turkey). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

About 17,000 lines of verse, with the long poem on his own life.

Poem · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Most are of his last years, 381 to 390 (McGuckin, St Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography (2001))
Place written probable: Most were written in retirement at Arianzus, his estate near Nazianzus (McGuckin, St Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography (2001))