Against the Academics

Contra Academicos

Written in 386, in Cassiciacum (near Milan, Italy, site not sure).

His first book: can we know the truth?

Dialogue · first written in Latin · a major work

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Date written sure: Written at the country house at Cassiciacum, in the winter before his baptism (Retractations 1.1-4; Confessions 9.4); the talks were in November 386
Place written sure: Written at the country house at Cassiciacum, in the winter before his baptism (Retractations 1.1-4; Confessions 9.4)