How to read the Confessions of Augustine

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• Catherine Conybeare Professor of Classics, Bryn Mawr College Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge
• Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00
• Combination Room, Wolfson College.

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The Confessions, composed by the bishop of Hippo in the late fourth century CE, is often claimed to be the first Western autobiography – but it is not the first, and the autobiographical passages constitute only a small percentage of the whole. It is, however, one of the most spiritually creative and intellectually original works ever written. How, then, should we read this anomalous work? And why?

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term series.

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