The Apparition of Peter in the Life of Antony
- Date of account
- Mid-fourth century CE text, describing earlier events
- Location
- Egyptian desert
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Athanasius’s Life of Antony contains accounts of Antony’s visions and encounters with beings presented as demons, angels, or deceased and supernatural figures during solitary ascetic practice. The work is not a neutral report of a modern-style ghost sighting: it is a saint’s life designed to demonstrate discernment, spiritual warfare, and Antony’s authority. It remains useful for comparing apparition language, illness, ascetic isolation, and posthumous or preternatural agency in late antique Egypt. Researchers should identify the precise chapter and consult Greek, Coptic, and Latin transmission histories.
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