商品簡介
In these two books of The City of God, Augustine confronts the religious writings of Terentius Varro, friend of Cicero and acknowledged as the greatest scholar of the age. In particular his Res diuinae was widely regarded as the authoritative study of Roman religion. In Book VI Augustine criticises Varro's general approach, and appends an account of the criticisms of the Younger Seneca's De superstitione. In Book VII, Augustine concentrates his attack on Book XVI of Res diuinae, in which Varro listed the twenty Select Gods. Augustine criticises the choice of the twenty, and describes how the Christian God performs all the roles undertaken by each of them. Finally, Augustine describes how Roman religion originated, when Numa Pompilius cooperated with the demons.
作者簡介
P.G. Walsh is Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow. He is editor of Augustine, De bono coniugali and De sancta uirginitate (Oxford), translator of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems) and of Cassiodorus, Explanation of the Psalms (Ancient Christian Writers). He is also editor of many volumes of Livy, including separate editions of Books XXXVI to XL in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. Livy is a main source of Augustine in these books of the City of God.