urt her vanity and provoked a deep enmity since she knew her preferred city, Carthage, would be destroyed, and its citizens would be sold to slavery by Rome (Virgil n.p.).
In times of Vergil, a series of ambitious and vicious leaders came in violently to control the state in the last days of the Roman republic, but none of them solved the problems or instituted a permanent power for himself and his supporters (McKay, et al). Octavian, the first Roman emperor, was officially named Augustus by the Roman Senate, as he brought order where other leaders had failed. He restructured the Roman bureaucracy opening its membership to freedmen, common people, and slaves; in the meantime, he managed to mask his absolute power skillfully by maintaining the old appearance of the Republican government (Virgil n.p.).
Virgil, a poet who matured in times of the death throes of the republic, longed for the peace that Augustus had promised and brought; therefore, he whole-heartedly supported the policies of the emperor. The concurrent look of the man of poetic genius inspired by the man of power led to the creation of Aeneid, whose main aim was to remind its readers of the epic past, from which Rome was believed to be born, and awaken equally epic future hopes (Virgil n.p.).
St. Augustine begins The City of God by praising Lord, as well as referring incessantly to Biblical verses, particularly the Book of Psalms. Augustine aims to know and comprehend God’s nature, how to pray and call upon Him. He pays special attention to how Lord exists in the creation and whether God is surrounded by the creation or the whole creation contains Him. Therefore, Augustine parallels his most basic activities as an infant, like knowing how to smile, with nursing. Augustine says that he had learned about these facts from weak females: his nurses and mother (Augustine of Hippo n.p.). Augustine experienced wretchedness in his young years, and he was admonished to know how to employ his authority of speech to preach all over the world and gain honor and wealth. Augustine’s father was not a Christian, but he had never prevented anyone in his family from practicing their faith. Since the early days, Augustine recognized that his mother, St. Monica, was the moral superior to his father, and he used to adopt moral instructions from this women (Augustine of Hippo n.p.).
In Book One, some of the Augustine’s ideas seem to be narrow-minded and stringent to modern reader and standards. St. Augustine criticized children and even toddlers for their jealousy, self-centeredness, and having no companion as psychologically unstable state of mind. The fact that Augustine considers children’s behavior somewhat wrong serves to demonstrate why he suggests the teaching of children from the very birth. St. Augustine considers the innate sinfulness of children as a proof of the original sin and suggests teaching them from these early events (Augustine of Hippo n.p.).
In describing of his school years, Augustine narrates about how boys were educated in the Roman Empire, in the 4th century. The boys learned Greek, the authority of Homer was regarded an indispensable educational tool, and a lot of time was spent on pronunciation and speech. Later in the book, readers see how Augustine was taught to pay attention to what he said and how he said it (Augustine of Hippo n.p.). Almost all teaching was dedicated to the right use of speech and writing. To the colonial society, Rome seemed to be the center of culture, wealth, refinement, and power. This inferiority complex group led to extremes in education evidenced by the beating of students; the contemporary society was violent and corporal punishment was common at schools and homes (Augustine of Hippo n.p.).
St. Paul’s letter to the Romans is a theological masterpiece that has defined the church doctrine for many centuries. Paul destroys the false foundations concerning salvation using his debating skills and justifies that the only way of reaching and understanding God is the pass of Faith. Paul pulls no thump in describing the truth of Bibl