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 (12)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (10)Further afield (2)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)

GenreAll (12)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 (11)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (1)

FormAll (12)Prose (12)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)

LanguageAll (82)Arabic (39)Persian (14)Greek (12)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (3)Chinese (0)Latin (8)Hebrew (1)Other (5)

PeriodAll (12)Archaic and classical Greek (7)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (3)Late antique (1)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (1)4th century AH (0)5th century AH (0)6th century AH (0)7th century AH (0)8th century AH (0)9th century AH (0)10th century AH (0)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)

In the readerAll (12)In the reader (1)Planned (0)Listed only (11)

12 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲	Author	Genre	Period	Language	Status
Advice to the Emperor / EkthesisἜκθεσις κεφαλαίων παραινετικῶν	Agapetus the Deacon	Counsel and governance	Late antique	Greek	Listed only
Galen's synopsis of Plato's Republic (Arabic reception)جوامع كتاب أفلاطون في السياسة (Galen's synopsis of the Republic, as reported)	Galen of Pergamon	Counsel and governance	Roman imperial	Greek	Listed only
Cyropaedia (Education of Cyrus); HieroΚύρου παιδεία; Ἱέρων	Xenophon	Counsel and governance	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	Listed only
LawsΝόμοι	Plato	Counsel and governance	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	Listed only
Kingship OrationsΠερὶ βασιλείας	Dio Chrysostom	Counsel and governance	Roman imperial	Greek	Listed only
Phaedrus (chariot myth, 246a-254e)Φαῖδρος	Plato	Other, or not yet classed	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	Listed only
Byzantine mirrors: Photius' Letter to Boris of Bulgaria (c. 864-66); Theophylact of Ohrid, Paideia basilike (1080s [check]); Basil I's Exhortations to Leo (886 [check])Letter to Boris-Michael; Παιδεία βασιλική; Κεφάλαια παραινετικά	Photius of Constantinople	Counsel and governance	3rd century AH	Greek	Listed only
RepublicΠολιτεία	Plato	Counsel and governance	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	In the reader
Politics; (pseudo-)EconomicsΠολιτικά; Οἰκονομικά (pseudo)	Aristotle	Counsel and governance	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	Listed only
StatesmanΠολιτικός	Plato	Counsel and governance	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	Listed only
To an Uneducated Ruler; Sayings of Kings and Commanders (Moralia)Πρὸς ἡγεμόνα ἀπαίδευτον; Βασιλέων ἀποφθέγματα	Plutarch of Chaeronea	Counsel and governance	Roman imperial	Greek	Listed only
To Nicocles; Nicocles (or the Cyprians); EvagorasΠρὸς Νικοκλέα / Νικοκλῆς / Εὐαγόρας	Isocrates	Counsel and governance	Archaic and classical Greek	Greek	Listed only

Records

Advice to the Emperor / Ekthesis

Ἔκθεσις κεφαλαίων παραινετικῶν

Ekthesis kephalaiōn parainetikōn

Agapetus the Deacon (fl. 6th c. CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Greek · Late antique · Listed only

72 short chapters, acrostic on Justinian's name: the emperor is equal to all in nature, to God alone in power;

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 527-30, Constantinople (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Riedinger (1995); PG 86 · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Peter Bell, Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian (Liverpool 2009) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Resonance, not influence: To Nicocles; Nicocles (or the Cyprians); Evagoras The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

Galen's synopsis of Plato's Republic (Arabic reception)

جوامع كتاب أفلاطون في السياسة (Galen's synopsis of the Republic, as reported)

Jawāmiʿ kitāb Aflāṭūn fī l-siyāsa (? title not verified)

Galen of Pergamon (129–c. 216 CE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Roman imperial · Listed only

A synopsis of the Republic attributed to Galen. Galen's synopses of Plato survive in Arabic in part: the Timaeus synopsis and fragments of others are edited by Kraus and Walzer (Plato Arabus I, 1951); whether a Republic synopsis is among them is not yet checked.

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

unknown; not verified (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Kraus and Walzer 1951 (contents to be checked for a Republic synopsis) · © cite only probable

Not in the reader yet

Cyropaedia (Education of Cyrus); Hiero

Κύρου παιδεία; Ἱέρων

Kyrou paideia; Hierōn

Xenophon (c. 430–354 BCE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · Listed only

Cyrus as ideal ruler produced by education and by command through willing obedience (the household as a model of the empire);

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 360-350 BCE, Athens/Scillus (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Marchant (OCT, 1910-20) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Henry Dakyns (free); Wayne Ambler (Cornell); Loeb (Miller; Marchant and Todd) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

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Connected works

Resonance, not influence: To Nicocles; Nicocles (or the Cyprians); Evagoras The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

Laws

Νόμοι

Nomoi

Plato (c. 428–348 BCE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · Listed only

Plato's last and longest dialogue: the laws of a second-best city, with a preamble to each law.

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 350 BCE, unfinished at his death (draft), Athens (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

J. Burnet (ed.), Platonis Opera, Oxford Classical Texts · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Not in the reader yet

Kingship Orations

Περὶ βασιλείας

Peri basileias (Orations 1-4)

Dio Chrysostom (c. 40–after 110 CE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Roman imperial · Listed only

The good king imitates Zeus, the father;

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 100-105 CE, Prusa, Rome (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Teubner (von Arnim) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Loeb (Cohoon and Crosby); Perseus · 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
Resonance, not influence: Cyropaedia (Education of Cyrus); Hiero The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

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

Byzantine mirrors: Photius' Letter to Boris of Bulgaria (c. 864-66); Theophylact of Ohrid, Paideia basilike (1080s [check]); Basil I's Exhortations to Leo (886 [check])

Letter to Boris-Michael; Παιδεία βασιλική; Κεφάλαια παραινετικά

Photius to Boris; Paideia basilikē (Theophylact); Basil I, Kephalaia

Photius of Constantinople (c. 810–after 893 CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Greek · 3rd century AH · Listed only

Christian ruler as imitator of Christ;

Attribution: authentic not yet checked
Date: 9th-11th c., Constantinople; Ohrid (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

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Connected works

Resonance, not influence: Advice to the Emperor / Ekthesis The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

Republic

Πολιτεία

Politeia

Plato (c. 428–348 BCE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · In the reader

The city as the soul written large, and the philosopher fit to rule because reason governs. No full Arabic translation is attested; SEP records one translated passage (VI 506d–509b).

Attribution

authentic checked in This site: app/src/lib/catalogue.ts (texts in the reader)

Date

c. 375 BCE (draft; unchecked), Athens (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

B. Jowett, The Republic (1892), as shown alongside the Greek in the reader · public domain checked in This site: app/src/lib/catalogue.ts (texts in the reader)
J. Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (1902); S. R. Slings OCT (2003) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Jowett (1892) · en · public domain checked in This site: app/src/lib/catalogue.ts (texts in the reader)

Read it herePartial: the reader holds Books VI–VII (the Sun, the Line and the Cave) only.

Politics; (pseudo-)Economics

Πολιτικά; Οἰκονομικά (pseudo)

Politika; Oikonomika

Aristotle (384–322 BCE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · Listed only

Man is a political animal;

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

Politics c. 330s BCE, Athens (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Ross (OCT 1957) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Reeve (Hackett); Barker (Oxford); Jowett (free) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

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Connected works

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

Statesman

Πολιτικός

Politikos

Plato (c. 428–348 BCE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · Listed only

A dialogue on the statesman's art of ruling, comparing the ruler to a weaver of the city.

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 360 BCE (draft), Athens (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

J. Burnet (ed.), Platonis Opera, Oxford Classical Texts · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Not in the reader yet

To an Uneducated Ruler; Sayings of Kings and Commanders (Moralia)

Πρὸς ἡγεμόνα ἀπαίδευτον; Βασιλέων ἀποφθέγματα

Pros hēgemona apaideuton; Basileōn apophthegmata

Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 46–after 119 CE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Roman imperial · Listed only

A ruler must first be ruled by reason ('law is the king of all');

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 100 CE, Chaeronea/Delphi (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Teubner Moralia; Loeb Babbitt/Fowler · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Loeb (Babbitt, Moralia vol. X) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

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Connected works

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

To Nicocles; Nicocles (or the Cyprians); Evagoras

Πρὸς Νικοκλέα / Νικοκλῆς / Εὐαγόρας

Pros Nikoklea; Nikokles; Euagoras

Isocrates (436–338 BCE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · Listed only

A young king should govern himself first, hold power as a trust, and choose advisers who speak freely;

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

c. 374-365 BCE, Athens, for Cyprian Salamis (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Mandilaras (Teubner 1980); Mathieu-Brémond (Budé) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

G. Norlin (Loeb 1928) and La Rue Van Hook (Loeb); David Mirhady and Yun Lee Too (Univ. Texas Press 2000) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

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