Confessions. Books V-IX / Augustine ; edited by Peter White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430, author.

Contributor:

White, Peter, 1941- editor.

Series:

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Standardized Title:

Confessiones. Liber 5-9. Latin (White)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones--Liber 5-9.

Augustine.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Christian saints--Algeria--Hippo (Extinct city)--Biography.

Christian saints.

Algeria--Hippo (Extinct city).

Genre:

Biographies.

Christian literature, Early -- Latin authors.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 358 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

Includes Books V-IX of the Confessiones in Latin, with introduction and commentary in English.

Summary:

"Books V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Christian and the renunciation of a worldly career in Milan. This commentary will be invaluable for those wishing to read his story in the original Latin. Through careful glosses and notes, Augustine's Latin is made accessible to students of patristics and of classics. His extensive quotations from Scripture are translated and explained in light of the variant Bible texts and the interpretative assumptions through which he came to understand them. The unfolding of his career is set against the background of political, cultural, and religious change in the fourth century, and the art with which he created a form of narrative without precedent in earlier Latin literature is illustrated in close detail."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781107009592

1107009596

9780521253512

0521253519

OCLC:

1107063987

Publisher Number:

40029493679