Confessions of St. Augustine in Latin

This book will fill a gap in the current resources available to students of the Confessions in Latin. The scope, method, and intended readership will align not only in college Latin classrooms, but also by high school students who have completed their study of elementary Latin grammar; or by any non-specialist who would benefit from generous lexical and grammatical help in a first attempt to read the Confessions in Latin. Greek and Latin philology and classical education have long privileged classical pagan authors to the neglect of early Christian ones. This lack of attention is felt most keenly at the level of aids for intermediate students. While the Classics profession has begun to shift towards greater inclusion of Late Antique and early Christian authors, at least at the level of scholarly activity, the provision of corresponding aids for Classics students lags behind. The current AP Latin syllabus is a case in point: No opportunity is offered for the study of authors whose works comprise an enormous portion of the corpus of Latin literature and were, arguably, no less seminal to medieval and modern culture than the works of Virgil and Caesar.

This book will thus serve as a vital educational tool for all persons engaged in studying and teaching the Confessions in Latin.