The Plurality of Roman Gods

In Book 8 of the City of God, Augustine switches to a long critique of pagan philosophy. He writes that since philosophy means the love of wisdom, and since wisdom was only held by his own deity, then no pagan philosophers had ever really loved wisdom. The Christian god, Augustine admits, had been a long time in coming, but Christ was the only force that could puncture and draw away the old rotten tapestry of pagan religion. Next up is a short history of pre-socratic Greek philosophers with their usual taglines: Phailes predicted an eclipse; Anaximander taught that everything came from water.; Arculos offered a variation of this idea called Arculos