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stopped reading Confessions by Augustine of Hippo city of god (Oxford world's classics)

Augustine of Hippo city of god: Confessions (2008, Oxford University Press)

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is an autobiographical work by Saint Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 …

Dropping this edition but finding another. I think I'm done with this publisher series. They're matchy-matchy which makes you want to collect them, but the intro materials keep being bigoted. Can't even repeat here what was in Gordon Campbell's intro to one of their editions of Ben Jonson's plays - I'd be rightfully banned.

I have better luck with the Penguins (or New Mermaids for plays). Not very happy with the Norton Critical Editions, either.

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There's just so many editions that it overwhelms you. The Penguin translation is 1961, but since there are so many options I'd rather a newer one. Ended up choosing the Loeb translation (Hammond) over the Modern Library translation (Ruben).

Loeb is supposed to be more literal / word-for-word while the Ruben translation is supposed to be more accessible and entertaining. For this particular work literal sounds more appealing.