Resumen de Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity by Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé (review)
All of this makes particularly valuable a book written by one of the foremost authorities on ancient Cynicism which examines all evidence for connections between Cynicism and Christianity (here an English translation of Cynisme et christianisme dans l’antiquité [Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2014]). There emerges a picture of minor literary engagement between Jews and Cynics, the possibility of interaction in ancient Gadara, and the parallel phenomena of Hellenistic chreia in Jewish/Christian and Cynic literatures. First Goulet-Cazé shows how pagan (Aelius Aristides, Julian) and Christian (Pseudo-Hippolytus, Origen) critics compared or conflated Christians and Cynics given perceived similarities.
