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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Corpus works: 259
Private works: 46
Private records: 56
Private excerpts: 20,006
Text representations: 223,819
Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
Tracked concepts: 9
Estimated sentences: 1,456,557
Words: 27,541,029

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents

Incoming letters, petitions, and administrative records preserve the voices of people who petitioned, informed, or challenged Lincoln. The archive reveals the pressures of a wartime presidency without attributing his correspondents’ words to the president.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1916
Editions / translations: 2026
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19,210 passages · 7,989,852 words

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Consolation to MarciaSeneca

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Consolation to Marcia

Seneca addresses Marcia, long overwhelmed by the death of her son. He contrasts models of mourning, recalls the vulnerability of every life, and seeks a memory that honours the dead without indefinitely sustaining the wound.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 39-40 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 14,991 words

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Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus

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Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian

Arrian transmits Epictetus’ oral teaching as lively exchanges with students. The teacher confronts their ambitions, fears, and inconsistencies with a central demand: govern assent, desire, and action rather than claim command over events.

What you will learn

Composition: teaching recorded by Arrian, c. 108-125 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 95 passages · 118,661 words

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Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses

The Dīgha Nikāya contains extended teachings in which the Buddha and his interlocutors examine ritual, rival doctrines, ethics, meditation, and human destiny. Several narratives also portray the Buddhist community and preserve memories of the teacher’s final days.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · Pali · French
Extent: 34 passages · 188,836 words

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the LawsPlato

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws

The Epinomis returns to the wisdom required by a legislator and directs it toward number, astronomy, and worship of the stars. Transmitted as a sequel to the Laws, it has an ancient but strongly disputed attribution to Plato.

What you will learn

Composition: after 347, c. 347-330 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 20 passages · 9,251 words

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Hippias MajorPlato

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Hippias Major

Socrates asks the sophist Hippias not which things are beautiful but what beauty itself is. A young woman, gold, appropriateness, utility, and sensory pleasure each fail to provide a definition without counterexample.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; authenticity disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,859 words

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How a Young Man Should Study PoetryPlutarch

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How a Young Man Should Study Poetry

How a Young Man Should Study Poetry observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 14 passages · 16,252 words

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Laws

An Athenian, a Cretan, and a Spartan design institutions for a new city. Without Socrates, the dialogue examines legislation, education, worship, property, family, and punishment, asking how law can form citizens rather than merely constrain them.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 360-347 BCE; late work left unfinished
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 327 passages · 148,152 words

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Letters Attributed to PlatoPlato

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Letters Attributed to Plato

Letters transmitted under Plato’s name discuss Syracuse, political counsel, friendship, and life around the Academy. Authenticity is debated item by item; the collection should not be read as uniformly secure personal correspondence.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th-3rd centuries BCE; authenticity varies by letter
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 55 passages · 23,675 words

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Letters to FriendsCicero

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Letters to Friends

The Letters to Friends gather Cicero’s exchanges with magistrates, allies, relatives, and protégés. Recommendations, intelligence, and political appeals reveal the Republic as a fabric of personal obligations, negotiation, and fragile loyalties.

What you will learn

Composition: 62-43 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 1,342 passages · 225,910 words

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MetaphysicsAristotle

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; transmitted as a layered collection
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 142 passages · 109,138 words

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On the E at DelphiPlutarch

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On the E at Delphi

On the E at Delphi observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 21 passages · 6,799 words

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On Tranquillity of Mind, PlutarchPlutarch

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On Tranquillity of Mind, Plutarch

On Tranquillity of Mind observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 20 passages · 10,529 words

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Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Sextus presents Pyrrhonian scepticism as an ability to oppose appearances and arguments until judgement is suspended. Tranquillity then follows without affirming a doctrine about the real nature of things.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 180-220 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 3 passages · 68,840 words

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PoeticsAristotle

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Poetics

Poetics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 13,689 words

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PoliticsAristotle

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Politics

Politics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: work attested c. 335-323 BCE; earlier layers possible
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 189 passages · 98,973 words

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Socrates in Plato’s GorgiasPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias

Facing three defenders of rhetoric and power, Plato’s Socrates argues that speech without knowledge of justice is flattery. He prefers suffering injustice to deforming his soul by committing it.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 81 passages · 42,811 words

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Socrates in Xenophon’s ApologyXenophon

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Socrates in Xenophon’s Apology

Xenophon explains Socrates’ proud courtroom manner through his conviction that timely death is preferable to decline in old age. The divine sign and deliberate choice not to prepare persuasive defence structure a portrait distinct from Plato’s.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-360 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 34 passages · 2,999 words