Writings
The following are Evagrian works which are most certainly authentic (Bamberger 1972:lix-lxvii).
- The Praktikos
- The Gnostikos
- Kephalaia Gnostica (Problemata Gnostica)
- Chapters on Prayer (consists of a prologue and 153 chapters)
- The Antirrhetikos
- Sentences for Monks
- Exhortation to a Virgin
- Hypotyposis
- To Eulogius (Treatise to the Monk Eulogius)
- Treatise on Various Evil Thoughts (Capita Cognoscitiva)
- Protrepticus
- Paraeneticus
- 62 letters
- Scriptural commentaries
- Commentary on the Psalms
- De Seraphim (deals with the vision of Isaiah)
- De Cherubim (deals with the vision of Ezekiel)
- Commentary on the Pater Noster
- Various ascetic treatises: De Justis et Perfectis
Although ascribed to Evagrius, these two works are considered to be of doubtful authenticity (Bamberger 1972:lxvi-lxvii).
- De Malignis Cogitationibus
- Collections of Sentences
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