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The treatise was in part a response to the public's reaction to Visigoths sacking Rome on August 24, 410 AD. For inhabitants of the Empire, it was shocking and soul-crushing. The pagans blamed the loss of Rome on the abandonment of their gods and traditions.
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-city-of-god-on-augustines-vision-of-an-empire/ >They feared that the Christian emperor Theodosius I offended the gods and endangered the empire when, in 391–92, he banned the public and private cult of the gods of Rome; and they thought their point was proved when two decades later, in 410, a war-band of barbarian Goths spent three days looting the city of Rome.
Augustine rebukes them, arguing that it succumbed to decadence and corruption. He points out that Rome had suffered difficult times before the arrival of Christianity.
