Ancient & Classical Texts Codexery

A source-cited reference to ancient & classical texts

Ancient & Classical Texts (16)

• Doctrine of the Mean — A central Confucian text on balance and virtue.
• Dresden Codex — A Maya screenfold book of astronomy, ritual and medicine, held in Dresden since 1739.
• Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede completed his Ecclesiastical History of the English People around the year 731, when he was about 59 years old.…
• Edwin Smith Papyrus — Ancient Egyptian surgical treatise on papyrus.
• Euthyphro — Prophet who debated piety with Socrates in Plato's dialogue.
• Geography (Ptolemy) — A 2nd-century gazetteer and atlas foundational to later cartography.
• Gorgias (dialogue) — Plato's dialogue examining rhetoric, justice, and the art of persuasion.
• Han Feizi — Ancient Chinese Legalist text attributed to Han Fei.
• Hippocratic Corpus — Collection of ancient Greek medical works attributed to Hippocrates.
• Histories (Herodotus) — Founding work of history in Western literature.
• Histories (Polybius) — 2nd-century BC Greek account of Rome's rise to power.
• Histories (Tacitus) — Roman historical chronicle covering the Year of Four Emperors.
• Huangdi Neijing — Ancient Chinese medical text foundational to traditional medicine.
• I Ching — Ancient Chinese divination text and classic of changes.
• Instructions of Shuruppak — Ancient Sumerian wisdom sayings attributed to King Šuruppak.
• Jami' al-tawarikh — First world history, produced in the Mongol Ilkhanate.

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