4 surviving letters between Alupius and Isidore of Pelusium, spanning c. 406–408.
A good speech does more than convey information — it transforms.
The cross of Christ stands as the measure against which everything else is evaluated — in this world, and in the one...
The theater — that furnace of irrational love — captures the best of men and drags them into the worst of themselves.
The theater is to be avoided — not because pleasure is evil in itself, but because this particular pleasure actively...