Augustine: Confessions Books I-IV Paperback / softback
by Augustine
Edited by Gillian (University of Liverpool) Clark
Part of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library series
Paperback / softback
Description
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature.
Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century AD, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life.
Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, school days, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration.
Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible.
This edition, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/11/1995
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- ISBN:9780521497633
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/11/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521497633
