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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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Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus

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Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the Learned

In the books devoted to logicians, Sextus confronts theories of the criterion of truth, signs, demonstration, and propositions. Rival doctrines undermine one another until Pyrrhonian suspension becomes possible.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 180-220 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 927 passages · 63,717 words

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Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus

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Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned

Sextus tests physicists’ claims about gods, causes, wholes and parts, place, time, motion, and number. Each concept encounters competing definitions and incompatible consequences.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 180-220 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 791 passages · 51,318 words

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Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus

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Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned

The first six books of Against the Learned examine grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, and music. Sextus targets these disciplines’ theoretical claims while sometimes distinguishing useful practices from disputed dogmatic foundations.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 180-220 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 757 passages · 50,554 words

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Cato the YoungerPlutarch

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Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger 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: 318 passages · 25,464 words

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Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

What you will learn

Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 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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Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus

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Enchiridion of Epictetus

The Enchiridion condenses Epictetus’ teaching into rules of discernment and exercise. Its opening distinction is sharp: some things are up to us and others are not.

What you will learn

Composition: early 2nd century CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 53 passages · 8,138 words

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Eudemian EthicsAristotle

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Eudemian Ethics

Eudemian Ethics 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: 41 passages · 39,333 words

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Fragments on Customs and WarsPosidonius

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Fragments on Customs and Wars

One hundred and ninety-seven carrier units trace war, institutions, luxury, dependency, and disorder in Posidonius’ lost Histories.

What you will learn

Composition: 1st century BCE; fragments of the Histories transmitted by ancient authors
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · Latin · English · French
Extent: 197 passages · 45,218 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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How to Profit by One’s EnemiesPlutarch

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How to Profit by One’s Enemies

How to Profit by One’s Enemies 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: 11 passages · 5,999 words

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Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter

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Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Carter opens her translation of Epictetus with an account of Stoicism, its three fields of exercise, and its moral vocabulary. She provides readers with orientation while comparing some ancient claims with her Christian commitments.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 1749-1758; published in 1759
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 37 passages · 8,770 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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MeditationsMarcus Aurelius

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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius records private reminders for governing judgement, desire, and action under the pressure of power. The text repeatedly sets life’s brevity against the duty to act justly.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 170-180 CE
Editions / translations: 1876 · 1889 · 1902
Languages: Ancient Greek · French · English
Extent: 487 passages · 45,694 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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Nicomachean EthicsAristotle

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Nicomachean Ethics

Nicomachean Ethics 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: 116 passages · 89,657 words

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On Moral VirtuePlutarch

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On Moral Virtue

On Moral Virtue 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: 12 passages · 11,220 words