The walls of Carthage and the date of Augustine’s De Trinitate
This article calls attention to a hitherto overlooked piece of evidence that securely dates the completion of Book IX and subsequent books of Augustine’s De Trinitate to AD 424/425 or later: in it Augustine refers to having seen the moenia (defensive walls) of Carthage, which were not built until AD...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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