The Church Fathers · 426–427
The Retractations
Retractationes
Augustine of Hippo · 354–430
What it is
A review of his own ninety-three books in order of composition, correcting what he now thought wrong and explaining what he had meant.
Why it lasted
Nothing else like it survives from antiquity: an author systematically auditing a lifetime of his own published opinions.
Where to read it
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