When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Aristotle, Categories (IV.16.1)
- The Bible
- Cicero, Hortensius (III.4.1)
- Epicurus (VI.16.2)
- Esau and Jacob (VII.6.7, VII.9.5)
- The Golden Calf (VII.9.5)
- Paul (VII.21.1, VIII.4.2)
- The Platonists (VII.9.2, VII.20.1)
- Manichaeism (all over the place)
- Medea (III.6.5)
- Orestes and Pylades (IV.6.1)
- The Trojan War (I.13.3)
- Virgil, the Aeneid (I.13.1)
Historical References
- Justina, mother of Valentinian II (IX.7.1)
People Influenced by Augustine
- Thomas Aquinas, a 13th-century Italian theologian, in "The Just War" section of Summa Theologica
- Martin Luther, a 15th- and 16th-century German Protestant Reformer who was a member of the Order of Saint Augustine at Erfurt
- Bertrand Russell, a 19th- and 20th-century British philosopher, in his A History of Western Philosophy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, a 20th-century Austrian philosopher, in his Philosophical Investigations
- Martin Heidegger, a 20th-century German philosopher, in his Being and Time