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This title was first published in 2001. A collection of fifteen
studies which explore topics in the psychology and philosophy of
mind of Plotinus, Augustine, and Boethius, as well as the
development of Augustine's views on history and Roman religion.
This title was first published in 2001. A collection of fifteen
studies which explore topics in the psychology and philosophy of
mind of Plotinus, Augustine, and Boethius, as well as the
development of Augustine's views on history and Roman religion.
The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a
decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. Augustine
wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD
410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire.
Gerard O'Daly's book remains the most comprehensive modern guide in
any language to this seminal work of European literature. In this
new and extensively revised edition, O'Daly takes into account the
abundant scholarship on Augustine in the twenty years since its
first publication, while retaining the book's focus on Augustine as
a writer in the Latin tradition. He explores the many themes of
City of God, which include cosmology, political thought, anti-pagan
polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, and biblical
interpretation. This guide, therefore, is about a single literary
masterpiece, yet at the same time it surveys Augustine's developing
views through the whole range of his thought. As well as a running
commentary on each part of the work, O'Daly provides chapters on
the themes of the work, a bibliographical guide to research on its
reception, translations of any Greek and Latin texts discussed, and
detailed suggestions for further reading.
Prudentius is often considered the greatest Latin poet of late
antiquity. In this volume, O'Daly looks at Prudentius' lyric poems,
the Cathemerinon, Poems for the Day, which were published early in
the fifth century AD. Reflecting the religious concerns of the
increasingly Christianized western Roman Empire in the age of the
emperor Theodosius and Ambrose of Milan, the Cathemerinon are above
all the writings of a private person, and of the ways in which his
religious beliefs colour his everyday life. They speak of bird-song
and morning light, they are about about the taking of food, about
lighting lamps as dark sets in, and about the night's sleep. Rich
in biblical themes and narratives, images and symbols (including
paradise and the Fall, Exodus, Jonah, Daniel, and the Magi), they
also celebrate Christ's miracles and the feasts of Christmas and
Epiphany. However, while they exploit the themes of the Bible, they
are also written in the classical metres of Latin poetry and make
use of its vocabulary and metaphors. They achieve a remarkable
creative tension between the two worlds that determined Prudentius'
culture: the beliefs and practices, sacred books, and doctrines of
Christianity; and the traditions, poetry, and ideas of the Greeks
and Romans. A good part of the attractiveness of these poems comes
from the interplay between these two worlds. The volume includes
the Latin texts, English translations, and critical essays on each
of the twelve poems.
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