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AUGUSTINE: DE CIVITATE DEI BOOKS XV AND XVI
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| By: |
Peter G. Walsh (Editor), Christopher Collard (Editor), Isabella Image (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1786940183 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781786940186 |
| Publisher: |
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2017 |
| Series: |
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
The volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's 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 two cities of Babylon and Jerusalem, with the predominant emphasis on the city of God. This is the only edition of these books in English which provides not only a text but also a detailed commentary on one of the most influential documents in the history of western Christianity. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |