Augustine: The City of God Books I and II
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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780856687525
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 07/03/2005
Width: 14.7 cm
Height: 21 cm
This edition of Books I & II of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only edition 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. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.
Preface
Abbreviations and Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK I
TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK II
Appendices:
I. Retractationes 2.69
II. Letter to Firmus
III. Suicide, Roman and Christian
COMMENTARY ON BOOK I
COMMENTARY ON BOOK II
Indices
I. Scripture
II. General
'This is a very useful introduction to Augustine in Latin.'
Jennifer Milligan, JACT Review, 2006 '...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