In the twilight of the Western Empire, Boethius (c. 476-523) served as consul, but ended his life imprisoned by the... more

Augustine’s City of God, Part 2 of 2. The second half of the City of God contains some of Late Antiquity’s most influential... more

Augustine’s City of God, Part 1 of 2. The first half of the City of God is a broadside against... more

Augustine’s Confessions, Part 2 of 2. The second half of Augustine’s Confessions contains some of the most famous theology in Christian history. ... more

Augustine’s Confessions, Part 1 of 2. The first half of Augustine’s Confessions tells of his wayward early years, his intellectual journey, and his... more

Polyglot Jerome (347-420) had a gigantic impact on all subsequent Christian history, leaving behind a huge body of works, including... more

The Dionysiaca, Part 2 of 2. The last surviving Greek epic of antiquity draws to a close with Dionysus fighting wars... more

The last epic from Greco-Roman antiquity that survives in full, Nonnus’ fifth-century Dionysiaca tells of the wine god Dionysus’ journey eastward, to... more

In 417 CE, the Roman poet Rutilius Namatianus journeyed from Rome back to his homeland of Gaul, not knowing whether... more

One of the later Latin poets of the Empire, Ausonius’ expansive body of work gives us a window into the... more