Lucian's essay 'On Mourning' asks how one should deal - in a self-determined way - with the pain ...

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The treatiseDe mundo (On the Cosmos), dated around the 1st century BCE, offers a cosmology in the...

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In the middle decades of the second century AD the acclaimed orator Aelius Aristides wrote a numb...

In antiquity and the Middle Ages, collections of sayings were a popular form of everyday literatu...

Synesius' essayDe insomniis ('On Dreams') - written soon after 400 AD by a man who was not only a...

The Life of Proclus or On Happiness, written by the Neoplatonic philosopher Marinus, is a remarka...

Written after the middle of the 2nd century CE by an educated Christian, Tatian's 'Address to the...

Philo's treatiseDe Migratione Abrahami offers an allegorical commentary on Gen 12. Abraham's migr...

In the second half of the fourth century, an unknown author created a correspondence between Sene...