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Homilies on the Song of Songs

In Canticum Canticorum

Written about 390 to 394; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Fifteen sermons on the Song of Songs, written out for the deaconess Olympias.

Homily · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable

Daniélou, "La chronologie des oeuvres de Grégoire de Nysse" (1966); May (1971); Quasten, Patrology vol. 3 (1960): after 390

Place written not known

Not stated in the work. Gregory was bishop of Nyssa but travelled much in these years; see his entry in authors.json (Maraval; Quasten, Patrology vol. 3 (1960))