Augustine of Hippo

2 series 5 books in order 3 standalone books

Augustine was born in Thagaste, present-day Souk Ahras, Algeria, the son of a Catholic mother and a pagan father. He was raised in the Catholic faith and attended school in Madaurus at age 11, where he was exposed to both Latin literature and pagan beliefs. He returned home in 369 and read Cicero's Hortensius. At 17, he moved to Carthage to study rhetoric and adopted the Manichaean religion, leading a hedonistic life and taking a lover who bore him a son. He taught grammar in Tagaste from 373 to 374 and later conducted a school of rhetoric in Carthage. In 383, he moved to Rome but was disillusioned with the schools and later secured a professorship in rhetoric at the imperial court in Milan in 384. There, he abandoned Manichaeanism for the skepticism of the New Academy and ended his relationship with his lover. In 386, he converted to Catholic Christianity, left his career in rhetoric, and returned to North Africa. He sold his inheritance and gave the money to the poor, converting his family home into a monastic foundation. He was ordained a priest in Hippo Regius in 391 and became a bishop in 396. He remained bishop until his death in 430. Augustine was a prolific writer, with over a hundred surviving works, the most famous being his Confessions, written between 397 and 398.

Known for: Harvard Classics, Classics of Western Spirituality

Series by Augustine of Hippo

Harvard Classics

26 books in order · 1882–1999

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

1882 · Charles Darwin

This 1909 volume presents Charles Darwin's seminal work laying the foundations for the principles of evolutionary biology via natural selection,…
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Virgil's Æneid

1909 · Publius Vergilius Maro

Virgil's Æneid is a 1909 book by Publius Vergilius Maro. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero, with his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

1909 · Cicero

Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero, with his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age is a 1909 book by Cicero, Pliny the Younger. It is part of the series…
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Nine Greek Dramas

1909 · Aeschylus

Nine Greek Dramas is a 1909 book by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony

1909 · Plutarch

Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony is a 1909 book by…
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Stories from The Thousand and One Nights

1909
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The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato

1909 · Πλάτων

The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato is a 1909 book by Πλάτων, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine

1909 · Augustine of Hippo

The Confessions of St. Augustine is a 1909 book by Augustine of Hippo, Thomas à Kempis. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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The Odyssey

1999 · Όμηρος

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, and in part a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to him. It…
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Classics of Western Spirituality

5 books in order · 1984–2007

Augustine of Hippo

1984 · Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo is a 1984 book by Augustine of Hippo. It is part of the series Classics of Western Spirituality. The listed edition runs 544 pages.
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Norbert and early norbertine spirituality

2007
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Standalone books

De doctrina Christiana · 2008
Concerning the city of God against the pagans · 2003
22. St. Augustine · 1978

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