Augustine: Confessions Books VIX

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Peter White (Editore), Peter (University of Chicago) White (Editore)
• Autori: Augustine
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.10.2019
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo; Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780521253512
• ISBN: 978-0-521-25351-2
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Serie: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
• Categorie: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Church history