Questions of Saint Sylvester and answers of Venerable Anthony

This book refers to a typical monastic genre that has formed in the Byzantine literature in V c. and reached his heyday in the VII-VIII centuries. In the original, the book was written by the name of St. Caesaria Naziazine, but its actual authorship was not specified. Most likely, she was written by the monk of the Constantinople Monastery Akimton, who hip his authorship under the name of the brother of St. Grigory Theologian. Most researchers date the text VI.
The book consists of 220 questions and answers, it is affected by both theological and moral and natural science topics. Of course, many cosmological and anatomical representations of that time today may seem naive and understand these pages should be more symbolically, which is literally, however, the dominant in the book understanding the world and man from theological and moral points of view today remains the same as one and a half Thousands of years ago