Anthony Melissa

Anthony Melissa (flourished 11th century) was a Byzantine monk and author whose collection of teachings and maxims taken from Sacred Scripture, early Christian writers, and secular authors promoted a popular Greek Orthodox tradition of moral–ascetical practice. Anthony, whose surname is derived from the title of his chief work, Melissa (Greek: “The Bee”), compiled an anthology based largely on two leading sources for Eastern Orthodox spirituality: the Hiera Parallēla (“Sacred Parallels”), commonly credited to the early-8th-century...