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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Private works: 46
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Private excerpts: 20,006
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Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
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AcademicaCicero

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Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 215,055 words

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Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus

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Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the Learned

In Book XI, Sextus confronts doctrines of good, evil, and the art of living with disagreements among peoples and philosophers. Suspension removes the claimed self-evidence of natural values that conflict prevents from being established.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 180-220 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 257 passages · 16,268 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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AlexanderPlutarch

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Alexander

Alexander 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: 377 passages · 30,354 words

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Ancient Biographical Testimonia on Musonius RufusMusonius Rufus

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Ancient Biographical Testimonia on Musonius Rufus

This dossier gathers ancient accounts of Musonius Rufus’ life, exiles, teaching, and reputation. The witnesses present the philosopher through other authors’ perspectives; they form neither autobiography nor a work written by him.

What you will learn

Composition: testimonies from the 1st to 3rd centuries CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Multilingual · English · French
Extent: 4 passages · 1,034 words

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Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades

Fragments or testimony

Ancient testimonia on Carneades

One hundred carrier passages follow Carneades from criticism of certain apprehension to probable judgment without inventing a book for him.

What you will learn

Composition: carriers from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE; testimonia on Carneades
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · Latin · French · English
Extent: 100 passages · 35,730 words

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Apology of SocratesPlato

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Apology of Socrates

Socrates defends himself before an Athenian jury against charges of impiety and corrupting the young. Plato composes a courtroom speech in which philosophical examination, divine mission, and refusal to flatter the audience put an entire life at stake.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 11,771 words

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Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses

The Aṅguttara Nikāya arranges teachings attributed to the Buddha in ascending numbered sets, from one item to eleven. Its mnemonic structure brings together conduct, mental training, communal life, and stages of awakening.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French · Pali
Extent: 1,408 passages · 443,916 words

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Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero

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Brutus, or On Eminent Orators

Cicero traces the history of Roman eloquence through the speakers who shaped it. The dialogue combines criticism, portraiture, and an anxious reflection on public speech at a moment when the Republic is losing its freedom.

What you will learn

Composition: 46 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 334 passages · 79,995 words

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CaesarPlutarch

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Caesar

Caesar 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: 288 passages · 23,818 words

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Catilinarian OrationsCicero

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Catilinarian Orations

Delivered during Catiline’s conspiracy, these four speeches accuse, mobilize, and justify the actions of the consul Cicero. They show eloquence turning a political threat into a public narrative of the Republic’s rescue.

What you will learn

Composition: 63 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 115 passages · 22,400 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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CharmidesPlato

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Charmides

Returning from military service, Socrates meets Charmides and Critias and asks what temperance is. Quietness, modesty, doing one’s own work, and self-knowledge are proposed in turn and put to the test.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,134 words

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ClitophonPlato

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Clitophon

Clitophon praises the force of Socrates’ exhortations but faults him for not showing how to practise justice once desire for virtue has awakened. This very short dialogue turns praise into a challenge to Socratic pedagogy’s effectiveness.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; disputed attribution
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 5 passages · 2,472 words

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Consolation to Helvia, His MotherSeneca

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Consolation to Helvia, His Mother

From exile in Corsica, Seneca consoles his mother Helvia for his absence. He turns displacement, loss of status, and family concern into an exercise in self-sufficiency, study, and the wise person’s belonging to the whole world.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 42-43 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 20 passages · 11,358 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