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Ancient · Roman/Hellenistic
Augustine of Hippo
354–430 CE
Born in Thagaste, Roman Africa (now Algeria)
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Bishop of Hippo, in Roman North Africa.
His Confessions is often called the first Western autobiography.
“Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
Converted, he wrote, after a child’s voice chanted “Take up and read.”
Evil isn’t a thing, but an absence of good.
City of God contrasts the earthly city with the heavenly one.