Vita Antony - A Voice From the Grave

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a system of orthodoxy. Athanasius of Alexandria is through by scholars to have lived from 296-373 CE. In 325 CE he attended the Council of Nicaea as a Deacon and Secretary to the Bishop of Alexandria, Alexander, and became the Bishop of Alexandria in 328 CE. He went through a series of exiles and around 356 CE he wrote Vita Antonii (The Life of Antony), after Antony had passed away. The most accurate body of orthodoxy at the time, that Athanasius refers to in his writings, is the Nicaean Creed that was written at the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE that was called to meeting by the Emperor Constantine. Athanasius wrote Vita Antonii as a harmonious blend of pseudo-fact and propaganda. In this writing, the author defines pseudo-facts as basic stories of Antony’s life that were present in society and not addressing the possibility that Athanasius may have altered these stories, or that the sources that originated these stories exaggerated or invented these tales of Antony because directly ...

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attack on Arianism, which is the most likely place a reader would read it since they will be in a flow of reading the life of a tremendous religious figure and will then be lead directly into the “show stopper” of the entire text. His style leads many to believe one of the main intentions for writing this narrative is to attack the Arians, who are thought to be his greatest rivals at the time. After he “throws” these controversial passages at a reader, he quickly goes back to sections of Antony’s life before presenting more of his propaganda. Closer to the end of the narrative, he seems to increase the tempo of his objectives by switching between sections of Antony’s life and his ...

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