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We do not always look for a work, a text, or a passage in the same way. Browse by work as you would in a traditional library, travel through time, follow a semantic concept, or go straight to a precise excerpt. This Library exists to support practice and deeper study by bringing old texts into contact with daily experience and present questions.

Works
305
Authors
94
Passages
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Corpus works
259
Private works
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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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Willing assent

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Photorealistic editorial illustration of Hymn to Zeus in the Prokopton42.com Library Hymn to ZeusCleanthes

Work

Hymn to Zeus

The sole continuous Cleanthes text preserved here joins Zeus, universal reason, common law, and human assent in one poem.

What you will learn
Composition
3rd century BCE; precise date unknown
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
1 passage · 385 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Pearson: Cleanthes fragments in the Prokopton42.com Library Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes

Fragments or testimony

Pearson: Cleanthes fragments

This Pearson section gathers ancient witnesses to Cleanthes without turning them into a continuous book.

What you will learn
Composition
3rd century BCE; fragments and testimonia transmitted later
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · French
Extent
95 passages · 27,697 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of SVF I: Cleanthes in the Prokopton42.com Library SVF I: CleanthesCleanthes

Work

SVF I: Cleanthes

This von Arnim section gathers ancient witnesses to Cleanthes without turning them into a continuous book.

What you will learn
Composition
3rd century BCE; fragments and testimonia transmitted later
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
36 passages · 16,537 words

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