Works

Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.

Checked on 2026-10-31

Table and records Streams

TraditionAll (1)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (1)Further afield (0)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)

GenreAll (7)Scripture and exegesis (0)Ḥadīth and the Prophet's life (0)Law (0)Creed and kalām (0)Metaphysics and cosmology (0)Sciences of letters and names (0)Counsel and governance (6)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (1)

FormAll (1)Prose (1)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)

LanguageAll (1)Arabic (0)Persian (0)Greek (1)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (0)Hebrew (0)Other (0)

PeriodAll (3)Archaic and classical Greek (1)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (0)Late antique (0)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (0)4th century AH (1)5th century AH (0)6th century AH (0)7th century AH (0)8th century AH (1)9th century AH (0)10th century AH (0)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)

In the readerAll (1)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (1)

1 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼	Author	Genre	Period	Language	Status
Phaedrus (chariot myth, 246a-254e)Φαῖδρος	Plato	Other, or not yet classed	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	Listed only

Records

Phaedrus (chariot myth, 246a-254e)

Φαῖδρος

Phaidros

Plato (c. 428–348 BCE)

Greek sources · Other, or not yet classed · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · Listed only

The soul as a winged charioteer driving two horses, one noble and one unruly: self-rule as the control of the divided soul, with eros as the wing.

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 370 BCE, Athens (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

OCT (Burnet 1901) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Jowett (free); Nehamas and Woodruff (Hackett 1995) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Resonance, not influence: Republic The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked