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Rome as the second Babylon (1)

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Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Concept of transfer of hegemony/sovereignty
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.01 Continuity of the Empire after the fall of Nineveh
12.02.03.01.02 Concept of transfer of hegemony/sovereignty

Keywords
Babylon
Rome

Period
5th century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Augustine, De Civitate Dei 18.2:
… Babylonia, as the first Rome, runs its course beside the city of God in its pilgrimage in this world. But as for the threads that we must weave into our narrative to compare the two cities, that is, the earthly and the heavenly, these we must select primarily from Greek and Latin history, in which Rome itself is like a second Babylon.

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Augustine, De Civitate Dei 18.2

Bibliography

Sanford and Green 1965, V 370-371

Sanford, E. M. and W. M. Green. Saint Augustine, The City of God, Against the Pagans. 7 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1965.

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Amar Annus

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