Sisoes the Great
Also: Sisois, Tithoes
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died perhaps in 429, perhaps in Clysma (now Suez, Egypt).
Egyptian monk who left Scetis to live on the mountain of Antony after Antony died.
Wrote in Coptic.
Places lived
- until 357Scetis (now Wadi El Natrun, Egypt)monkyears not sure, place probable
- from 357Mount of Antony (Mount Colzim), now Monastery of Saint Anthony, Egyptmonkyears not sure, place probable
- years not knownClysma (now Suez, Egypt)monkplace probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
Filed here, not written by Sisoes the Great
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Sayings of Sisoes the Great about or from this personSayings and short stories of Sisoes the Great, taken from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers.5,767 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisoes_the_Great : 4th century
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisoes_the_Great : a Copt, no town
- Died not sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisoes_the_Great
- Place of death not sure
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Sisoes 21 and 26: he moved to Clysma when old; the place of death is not stated; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727101
- Scetis, years not sure
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Sisoes 28: he left Scetis when Antony died (356)
- Scetis, place probable
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Sisoes 28; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232
- Mount of Antony (Mount Colzim), years not sure
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Sisoes 28
- Mount of Antony (Mount Colzim), place probable
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Sisoes 28; coordinates are the modern monastery
- Clysma, years not known
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Sisoes 21 gives no year
- Clysma, place probable
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Sisoes 21 and 26; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727101