AUGUSTINE De Civitate Dei Books I & II

This is the only edition in English which provides not only a text and translation but also a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity.

P.G. Walsh is Emeritus Professor of Humanity (Latin), University of Glasgow. He is editor of Augustine, De bono coniugali, De sancta uirginitate (Oxford); translator of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems, 3 vols) and of Cassiodorus, Explanation of the Psalms 3 vols (both Ancient Christian Writers); editor of Livy XXI (Bristol), XXVI­XXX (Teubner), XXXVI­XL (Aris & Phillips). Livy is a main source for these books of De Civitate Dei.

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CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations and Bibliography INTRODUCTION LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BOOK I LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BOOK II Appendices: I Retractationes 2.69 II Letter to Firmus III Suicide, Roman and Christian COMMENTARY ON BOOK I COMMENTARY ON BOOK II Indices: I Scripture II General

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