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Augustine: The City of God Books XV and XVI
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Paperback. The volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's City of God. Books I-XIV have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI. Editor(s): Walsh, P. G.; Collard, Christopher; Image, Isabella. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147. .
The volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's The City of God Books I-XIV which have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI. After completing the first ten books of De Civitate Dei, in which Augustine sought to refute the claim that pagan deities had ensured that Rome enjoyed unbroken success and prosperity in this life and guaranteed its citizens a blessed life after death, Augustine devoted the remaining twelve books to discuss the origins, development and destiny of the ... Read more
The volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's The City of God Books I-XIV which have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI. After completing the first ten books of De Civitate Dei, in which Augustine sought to refute the claim that pagan deities had ensured that Rome enjoyed unbroken success and prosperity in this life and guaranteed its citizens a blessed life after death, Augustine devoted the remaining twelve books to discuss the origins, development and destiny of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786940186
SKU
V9781786940186
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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 coniugali and De sancta uirginitate (Oxford); and translations of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems) and of Cassiodorus, ... Read more
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