St. Augustine's Confessions

Author(s)

• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
• Watts, William

Bibliographic Information

St. Augustine's Confessions

with an English translation by William Watts, 1631

（The Loeb classical library, 26-27）

W. Heinemann , Macmillan, 1912

• 1 : us
• 1 : uk
• 2 : us
• 2 : uk

Other Title

Augustine Confessions

Note

Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages

"This is a reprint of William Watts's translation ... published ... in 1631."--Pref

Later published in U.S. by Harvard University Press

Contents: 1: books I-VIII. -- 2: books IX-XIII

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1 : us ISBN 9780674990296

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 A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, 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, schooldays, 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 volume, 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. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.

Volume

2 : us ISBN 9780674990302

Description

In the ConfessionsAugustine (354 430 CE) offers his great autobiography.

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• NCID: BA00253688
• ISBN:
  • 0674990293
  • 0434990264
  • 0674990307
  • 0434990272
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: lateng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: London,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR1720.A9
  • DC19 : 270.2/092/4
  • NDC7 : 132.1
  • NDLC : KE211
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
  • LCSH : Christian saints -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115