Letters

Ἐπιστολαί · John Chrysostom · 404-407 (written in exile) · letter

Greek · domain: antiochene · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'Chrysostom letters', 'Chrysostom letters to Olympias' and 'Chrysostom Epistulae English translation' (2026-11-13) return only selections: 'Saint John Chrysostom: Letters to Saint Olympia' (Yonkers: St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2016/2017, credited to David C. Ford) covering the 17 letters to Olympias, and 'The Cult of the Saints: Select Homilies and Letters' (2006). No complete English translation of the collected letters was located in HOLLIS, and the corpus is printed entire only in Migne PG 52 ('Epistolae Joannis Chrysostomi'); the NPNF volumes carry the treatises and homilies but not the letter collection.

The letters are the main autobiographical source for the exile and for the fall of Eudoxia, and the collection is quoted selectively in every biography while never being translated whole; c. 238 letters in the standard count, the great majority with no English version. Series attribution of the Olympia volume to Popular Patristics and the translator's name come from the Open Library record, not from a HOLLIS record; the year is given as 2016 in HOLLIS and 2017 in Open Library, hence the split.

Existing translations recorded

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: John Chrysostom Letters — 124 record(s); match basis author_title.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_052
• HOLLIS search — Chrysostom letters to Olympias
• HOLLIS search — Chrysostom letters

Cite: Tergwame, “Letters” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-chrysostom-epistulae