Citizens of the Earth - Pagans and Their Gods in Augustine's North Africa

Augustine was the most influential of all late Roman writers. He was also an active preacher with a wide audience and the author of the definitive Christian work on Roman pagan religion (City of God). Citizens of the Earth brings together all of his works on traditional religion. It recalibrates modern assumptions about late antique religious difference and religious dispute against actual late antique thinking, offers a newly comprehensive narrative of the decline of traditional religion in one important region of the empire (North Africa), reconstructs the development of Augustine''s ideas across his career-and shows what happened to traditional religion and debate over paganism in North Africa after his death.