Synesius of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais
(c.370 - c.413)

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Secondary Sources

	Jay Bregman, "Synesius of Cyrene and the American 'Synesii.'" Numen 63.2–3 (2016): 299–323.
	Alice Gardner [1854-1927], Synesius of Cyrene. Philosopher and Bishop. The Fathers for English Readers. London: SPCK, 1886. Hbk. pp.179. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Percival Gardner-Smith, . "Synesius of Cyrene." Modern Churchman 30.12 (March 1941): 500–510.
	Filip Horáček, "A Threefold Cultural Encounter: Ancient Hellenism, Christianity, and Jews in Synesius' Epistle 5," Communio Viatorum 55.1 (2013): 19–34.
	Bronwen Neil, "Synesius of Cyrene on Dreams as a Pathway to the Divine," Phronema 30.2 (2015): 19–36.
	Sydney H. Spode, "Synesius on the Imagination,." Modern Churchman 34.10–12 (Jan. 1945): 365-367.
	Kevin Wagner, "Theophilus of Alexandria and the Episcopal Ordination of Synesius of Cyrene." Phronema 29.2 (2014): 127–172.
	Kevin Wagner, "The Second Person of the Trinity in the Hymns of Syneius of Cyrene and Gregory of Nazianzus' Poemata Arcana and Orations," Phronema 31.1 (2016): 59–96.

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