This paper focuses on the figure of Alexander the Great in Augustine's City of God. It argues that Alexander is used to as a negative exemplar, showing the short coming of Roman virtue. It is easier for Augustine's interlocutors to recognize the flaws in Alexander (a non-Roman) than to recognize flaws in Roman heroes. However, once the flaws in Alexander are identified, the flaws in Rome are easier to discern.
The Use of Alexander the Great in Augustine's City of God.Brian Harding - 2008 - Augustinian Studies 39 (1):113-128.
Augustine’s Use of the KK-Thesis in The City of God, Book 11.Joshua Anderson - 2016 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (2):151-168.
Augustine's City of God: A Critical Guide.James Wetzel (ed.) - 2012 - Cambridge University Press.
Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion From Alexander the Great to Augustine of Nippo.A. D. Nock - 1934 - Philosophy 9 (34):242-243.
Augustine's City of God Augustine: City of God. Edited with an English Translation by G. E. McCragken. (Loeb Classical Library.) Vol. I (Books I–Iii). Pp. Xc + 400. London: Heinemann, 1957. Cloth, 15s. Net. [REVIEW]S. L. Greenslade - 1958 - The Classical Review 8 (3-4):261-262.
A. D. Nock, Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion From Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo. [REVIEW]J. M. Connell - 1934 - Hibbert Journal 33:310.
City of the Outcast and City of the Elect: The Romulean Asylum in Augustine’s City of God and Servius’s Commentaries on Virgil.Philippe Bruggisser - 1999 - Augustinian Studies 30 (2):75-104.
St. Augustine's City of God.J. W. C. Augustine & Wand - 1963 - Oxford University Press.
Two Cities And Two Loves: Imitation In Augustine's Moral Psychology And Political Theory.Parrish John - 2005 - History of Political Thought 26 (2):209-235.
Augustine's Way Into the Will: The Theological and Philosophical Significance of de Libero Arbitrio.Simon Harrison - 2006 - Oxford University Press UK.
The Greek City After Alexander A. H. M. Jones: The Greek City From Alexander to Justinian. Pp. X + 393. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940. Cloth, 21s. Net. [REVIEW]A. N. Sherwin-White - 1941 - The Classical Review 55 (01):43-45.
A Headless Body Politic?: Augustine's Understanding of a Populus and its Representation.J. Von Heyking - 1999 - History of Political Thought 20 (4):549-574.
Alexander at Peucelaotis.[author unknown] - 1987 - Classical Quarterly 37 (1):117-128.