Ancient & Classical Texts
16 entries in the Ancient & Classical Texts compendium.
Doctrine of the MeanA central Confucian text on balance and virtue.Dresden CodexA Maya screenfold book of astronomy, ritual and medicine, held in Dresden since 1739.Ecclesiastical History of the English PeopleBede completed his Ecclesiastical History of the English People around the year 731, when he was about 59…Edwin Smith PapyrusAncient Egyptian surgical treatise on papyrus.EuthyphroProphet 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 FeiziAncient Chinese Legalist text attributed to Han Fei.Hippocratic CorpusCollection 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 NeijingAncient Chinese medical text foundational to traditional medicine.I ChingAncient Chinese divination text and classic of changes.Instructions of ShuruppakAncient Sumerian wisdom sayings attributed to King Šuruppak.Jami' al-tawarikhFirst world history, produced in the Mongol Ilkhanate.
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