School of Antiochwriter
Who he was
- Basil, archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria from ca. 440, played a strange part in the events leading up to the Council of Chalcedon.
- He first voted against the Alexandrians at the Synod of Constantinople in 448, at the Synod of Ephesus in 449 he declared in favor of Eutyches, but at Chalcedon he subscribed to the Tome of Pope Leo Ad Flavianum.
- In 458 together with the rest of the Isaurian bishops he wrote a letter to the Emperor to the effect that the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon must be sustained and the intruded patriarch of Alexandria, St. Timothy Aelurus, Pope of Alexandria be deposed.
What he wrote
- His extant treatises show that he was well read in classical literature and well trained in rhetoric.
- Photius (Bibl. Cod. 168) blames his lack of simplicity and naturalness and his excessive use of tropes and figures. He remarks on his exegesis the influence of St. Basil the Great and St. Chrysostom. 1. Sermons: extant (17 on the Old Testament, and 22 on the New Testament). 2. De vita et miraculis S. Theclae libri II: About the life of the protomartyr Thecla.