Augustine's Mixed Feelings: Vergil's Aeneid and the Psalms of David in the Confessions

The Aeneid of Vergil and the Psalter traditionally attributed to David so influenced Augustine's writing that one scholar has called the Confessions “a recapitulation of Vergilian epic in a Christian universe,” and another has described it as an “amplified Psalter.”1 Since both works permeate A...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Michael C. 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2009
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2009, Volume: 102, Issue: 4, Pages: 453-479
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