Listings 12-19
In collection:
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Works
12.
Epicurus
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoeceus
13.
Euclid
Elements of Geometry
14.
Archimedes
On the Equilibrium of Planes
On Floating Bodies
The Sand-Reckoner
Other works:
On Conoids and Spheroids
Lemmas
On the Measurement of the Circle
On the Method of Mechanical Problems
On the Quadrature of the Parabola
On Sphere and Cylinder
On Spirals
15.
Apollonius of Perga
On Conic Sections
16.
Cicero
On Friendship
On Old Age
Orations
Other works:
Letters
17.
Lucretius
On the Nature of Things
18.
Virgil
Works:
The Aeneid
Eclogues
Georgics
19.
Horace
Odes
Epodes
The Art of Poetry (
Ars Poetica
)
Other works:
Epistles
The Secular Hymn (
Carmen Saeculare
)
Satires
HIDE INDEX
[≤ 450BC]
[449-400BC]
[399-350BC]
[349-1BC]
[1AD-199]
[200-1499]
[1500-1599]
[1600-1649]
[1650-1699]
[1700-1749]
[1750-1789]
[1790-1829]
[1830-1859]
[1860-1889]
[1890-1909]
[1910-1929]
[≥ 1930]
Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades
(c. 220?)
The Enneads
(250)
On the Incarnation
(c. 318)
Ecclesiastical History
(c. 325)
Life of Antony
(c. 356-362)
Sermons (
Chrysostom
)
(c. 370-404)
Letters (
Chrysostom
)
(c. 370-404)
On the Priesthood
(c. 386)
On the Teacher
(c. 388)
Commentary on Galatians
(c. 390?)
Christian Doctrine
(397-426)
On the Trinity
(400-416)
Confessions (
Augustine
)
(c. 401)
The City of God
(413-426)
Enchiridion (
Augustine
)
(421)
The Rule of St. Benedict
(c. 530?)
The Qur'an
(c. 632)
Beowulf
(c. 725)
Tales from the 1001 Nights
(c. 850?)
The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
(c. 900?; mss. c. 1100)
The Tale of Genji
(c. 1008-1021)
Shahnameh
(1010)
The Mabinogion
(c. 1050?)
Monologium
(1077)
Proslogium
(1087)
The Song of Roland
(c. 1100)
The Rubaiyat
(c. 1120)
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
(c. 1130-1136)
On Loving God
(c. 1130?)
Sermons on the Song of Songs
(1136-1153)
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
(12th century)
Guide of the Perplexed
(1180-1190)
The Nibelungenlied
(c. 1200)
Magna Carta
(1215)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
(c. 1250-1261)
The Saga of Burnt Njal
(13th century)
On the Principles of Nature
(1252-1256)
Summa Contra Gentiles
(1261-1264)
Summa Theologica
(1265-1273)
The New Life
(c. 1292-1294)
The Cloud of Unknowing
(c. 1300)
The Divine Comedy
(c. 1306-1321)
Inferno
(c. 1306-1314)
On Monarchy
(c. 1309-1313)
Purgatorio
(c. 1315-1318)
Paradiso
(c. 1319-1321)
Sonnets (
Petrarch
)
(c. 1327-1374)
Ascent of Mt. Ventoux
(c. 1336)
The Decameron
(1351)
The Spiritual Dialogue (St. Catherine of Siena)
(1378)
Troilus and Criseyde
(c. 1385)
Canterbury Tales
(c. 1386)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Late 14th century)
On the Imitation of Christ
(1418)
Le Morte d'Arthur
(c. 1470)
Notebooks (
da Vinci
)
(c. 1478-1518)
The Dignity of Man
(c. 1486)
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