Augustine: The City of God - Books XIII & XIV

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Augustine: The City of God - Books XIII & XIVAris & Phillips Classical Texts 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

with its successes

The Murderess

Virgil uses ekphrasis—a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other object—to tell us something about the grander text in which it is embedded

είναι το ρούχο της ευτυχισμένης μας ψυχής… είναι η τρέλα που έρχεται μόνο μία φορά στη ζωή μας… είναι το επίσημο ένδυμα του ασυγκράτητου

of which he was Rome’s leading exponent during his career

Augustine turns from attack to defence

A work of superbly detailed research and sustained empathy

against his better judgment

use of style

A preface is usually an apology

Errors attributable to the stonemasons or sign-writers are noted and corrected

Για πόσο ακόμη

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