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Augustine: Confessions Books VIX

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The only commentary in English that interprets Augustine's language and thought in Confessions V-IX, for students and teachers of Latin.


About the author

Peter White is Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. His book Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome (1993) won the Goodwin Award of the American Philological Association in 1995. He has been teaching the Confessions of Augustine for the last twenty-five years.

Summary

This edition highlights Augustine's art as a narrator, enhances appreciation of the Confessions by explaining unfamiliar Augustinian vocabulary, idioms, and ideas, and clarifies his place as one of the most original thinkers of late antique Christianity. It will be indispensable for students and teachers of Latin.

Product details

Assisted by Peter (University of Chicago) White (Editor), Peter White (Editor)
Authors Augustine
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 31.10.2019
Subject Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
Fiction > Narrative literature
 
EAN 9780521253512
ISBN 978-0-521-25351-2
Pages 368
 
Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
Subjects LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Church history
 

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