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Augustine: De Civitate dei
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Description for Augustine: De Civitate dei
hardcover. This edition of St Augustine's City of God 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. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474.
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 Augustine offers a Christian perspective on the growth of Rome, which its pagan apologists attribute to the providential protection of its gods. Book III spotlights both the injustices inflicted and the privations endured by the Romans, thus rebutting such claims. Book IV offers a withering account of the Roman deities, basing its analysis on ... 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 Augustine offers a Christian perspective on the growth of Rome, which its pagan apologists attribute to the providential protection of its gods. Book III spotlights both the injustices inflicted and the privations endured by the Romans, thus rebutting such claims. Book IV offers a withering account of the Roman deities, basing its analysis on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Language
Latin
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856687594
SKU
V9780856687594
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About Augustine
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 coniugaliand De sancta uirginitate (Oxford); and translations of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems) and of Cassiodorus, Explanation ... Read more
Reviews for Augustine: De Civitate dei
‘...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.’ Bryn Mawr Classical Review