Thinking through history: Augustine’s method in the “City of God” and its Ciceronian dimension

Author: O’Daly, Gerard J.-P.
Title: Thinking through history: Augustine’s method in the “City of God” and its Ciceronian dimension
Review/Collection: "Augustinian Studies", 30, (2)
Year edition: 1999
Pages: 45-57
Keywords: Droit - Diritto - Law, Politique - Politica - Politics, Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: Cicero's historical approach to describing the development of the political institution of the Roman republic provided a fertile source for Augustine's account of the establishment of the Christian church. Cicero's De republica 5, 1 is an implicit backdrop to Augustine's correspondence with Nectarius (Ep. 90; 91; 103; 104) and his City of God 4, 3; 4, 4; 18, 48-53. (Année philologique)
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Author initials: O’Daly 1999