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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Cambridge Univ. Press
2009
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2009, Volume: 102, Issue: 4, Pages: 453-479 |
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