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AUGUSTINE AT CASSICIACUM: OTIUM HONESTUM AND THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CONVERSION BY DENNIS E. TROUT At the commencement of the vintage holidays in the late summer of A.D. 386, Augustine resigned his post of professor of rhetoric in Milan.' Shortly thereafter, with family, friends, and several students, he withdrew from the city to the nearby country estate of Verecundus at Cassiciacum, remaining there until the approaching winter encouraged his return to the city, where he began preparations for an Easter bap- tism.z During the months he spent at Cassiciacum Augustine composed four dialogues: the Contra Academicos, De beata vita, De ordine, and the Soliloquia.3 As the earliest surviving pieces of Augustine's writing, these works have attracted considerable attention, but scholars most often have approached them either as evidence for the character of Augustine's Christianity in then months after his famous conversion in the garden,' or as examples of the art of dialogue composition in anti- quity.' Less attention has been paid to these dialogues by historians of late Roman society, although, as is argued here, these works offer valuable insights into the social as well as the intellectual dimensions of the conversion of the elite in the later
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1988
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