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Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII & IX (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
Peter Walsh
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This edition of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods.
Before his conversion to Christianity in 386, Augustine had devoted himself to the ... Read more
This edition of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods.
Before his conversion to Christianity in 386, Augustine had devoted himself to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856688546
SKU
V9780856688546
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About Peter Walsh
†P.G. Walsh was Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow, and a Latin scholar of international renown. His publications include Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods (1961) and The Roman Novel (1970); editions of Augustine, De bono coniugali and De sancta uirginitate (Oxford); and translations of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems) and of Cassiodorus, ... Read more
Reviews for Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII & IX (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
'...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original. [...] The present volume is of particular interest to specialists of Apuleius, since a large part of both books 8 and 9 of the City of God is devoted to an elaborate polemic of ... Read more