The City of God by Augustine

Augustine is always clear, judicious and forceful with the materials available to him. He relies on a surprisingly small set of dog-eared Latin texts that he references again and again. Augustine's main sources on Roman history are as follows: Virgil, Livy, Salist, Cicero, Plutarch. For information about pagan religion,. Augustine makes use of Virgil's Aeneid, and then Augustine's like-minded religious critic Marcus Varro.