For those who reading Augustine’s Confessions (and if you haven’t—well, tolle lege!), below is a chart I reconstructed from a helpful chronological mapping of the book (i.e., the first 9 chapters, or “books”) produced by Stanford’s Thomas Sheehan. The subjects are from Garry Will’s translation. I also put together a simple Google Map marking some of the key locations
Book | Subject | Duration | Time | Age | Locale |
1 | Childhood | 15 years | 354-369 | 0-15 | Thagaste, Madaura |
2 | Sin | 1 year | 370 | 15/16 | Thagaste |
3 | Manichaeism | 3 years | 371-374 | 16-20 | Carthage |
4 | Friends | 6 years | 375-381 | 20-27 | Thagaste, Carthage |
5 | Materialism | 2 years | 382-384 | 27-30 | Carthage, Rome, Milan |
6 | Milan | 2 years | 385-386 | 30-32 | Milan |
7 | Neoplatonism | 2 months | June-July 386 | 31 | Milan |
8 | Vocation | 1 month | August 386 | 31 | Milan |
9 | Baptism | 1 year | August 386- Summer 387 | 31-32 | Cassiciacum, Milan, Rome, Africa |