ANCIENT GREECE
(1500 to 300 BC)

HOMERIC TIMES (850 to 600 BC)

Homer (800s/700s BC?)


Hesiod (c. 700 BC)

THE THINKERS OF IONIA AND MAGNA GRAECIA (600 to 450 BC)

Sappho (c. 620-565 BC)

Thales (ca. 624-546 BC)

Anaximander (ca. 610 - 547 BC)

Aesop (c. 500 BC)


Anaximenes (fl. mid 500s BC?)

Pythagoras (ca. 582-507 BC)

Heraclitus (ca. 535-475 BC)

Peri phuseos (On Nature)

Parmenedes (fl. early 5th cent BC)

On Nature

Empedocles (ca. 495-435 BC)

Leucippus (ca. 480-420 BC)

Democritus (ca. 460-370 BC)

PERICLEAN ATHENS (450-325 BC)

Aeschylus (525-456 BC)


Pindar (c. 520-440 BC)

Anaxagoras (ca. 500-428 BC)

Sophocles (c. 495-405 BC)


Protagoras (ca. 490-421 BC)

Euripides (c. 480-405 BC)

Rhesus
Alcestis
Medea
Heracleidae
Hippolytus
Andromache
Hecuba
Suppliants
Heracles
Electra
Trojan Women
Ion
Iphigenia Among the Taurians
Helen
Phoenician Maidens
Bacchae
Iphigenia at Aulis
Orestes
Cyclops

Herodotus (ca. 484-425 BC)


Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC)


Hippocrates (c. 460-377 BC)

On Ancient Medicine
Prognostics
Regimen in Acute Diseases
Epidemics
Surgery
Fractures
Law
Sacred Disease
The Hippocratic Oath

Aristophanes (c. 448-385 BC)

Acharnians
Knights
The Clouds (419 B.C.)
Wasps
Peace
The Birds (414 BC)
Lysistra
Thsmophoriazusae
The Frogs (405 B.C.)
Ecclesiazusae
Plutus

Xenophon (ca. 430-350 B.C.)

Agesilaus
Anabasis (March Up Country)
Apology
Cavalry Commander
Constitution of the Lacedaimonians
Cyropaedia
Economics
Hellenica
Hiero
Horsemanship
Hunting
Memorabilia
Symposium
Ways and Means

Demosthenes (384-322 BC)

  SOCRATES, PLATO AND ARISTOTLE

Socrates

Plato (c. 427-347 BC)

Apology
Charmides
Cratylus
Critias
Crito
Euthydemus
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Ion
Laches
Laws
Lysis
Meno
Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Philebus
Protagoras
The Republic
Seventh Letter
Sophist
Statesman
Symposium
Theaetetus
Timaeus

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

 The Athenian Constitution
Eudemian Ethics
Categories
On Generation and Corruption
History of Animals
On Interpretation
Metaphysics
Meteorology
Nicomachean Ethics
On the Heavens
On the Soul (De Anima) (350 BC)
Physics
Poetics
Politics
Posterior Analytics
Prior Analytics
Prophesying by Dreams
Rhetoric
Topics
Virtues and Vices

THE HELLENIST AND ROMAN AGE
(300 BC to 300 AD)

EARLY CYNICS, EPICUREANS, STOICS/OTHER PHILOSOPHERS

Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412-323 BC)

Crates of Thebes

Pyrrho of Elis (ca. 360-270 B.C.)

Epicurus (342-270 BC)

Letter to Menoeceus
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Pythocles
On Nature

Menander (342-291 BC)

Zeno (d. 263 BC)

Cleanthes of Assos (331-232 BC)

Chrysippus (ca. 280-207 B.C.)

Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC)


Posidonius of Apamea (c. 135-50 BC)

DEVELOPMENT OF MATH AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Euclid (late 300s BC)

Elements (D.E. Joyce - Clark University)
Elements (not as good as the above!)
Data
On Divisions of Figures
Phaenomena
Optics

Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310-230 BC)

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon

Archimedes (287-212 BC)


Apollonius of Perga (fl. mid-200s BC) Conic Sections

Eratosthenes (ca. 276-192 BC)

Hipparchus (fl. 145-130 BC)

Strabo (ca. 63 BC - 21 AD)

Geography

Nicomachus of Gerasa (60 - 120 AD)

 Introduction to Arithmetic (Arithmetike eisagoge)
The Theology of Numbers (Theologoumena arithmetikes)
Manual of Harmonics

Ptolemy (fl. early-mid 100s AD)

Almagest (or Syntaxis)
Geography
Analemma
Planisphaerium

Galen of Pergamum (c. 130-200 AD)

On the Natural Faculties (170 AD)
Exhortation to the Study of the Arts, Expecially Medicine
On Diagnosis in Dreams

 Ammonius Saccas (d. 243 AD?)

ROMAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

De re public (on the 'Republic' or 'Commonwealth')
Laelius, or: An Essay on Friendship
On the Genres of Rhetoric
The Dream of Scipio

Titus (Lucretius) Carus (96-55 BC)


Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) The Gallic Wars

Virgil (70-19 BC)
 Aenead (19 BC)
Eclogues
Georgics

 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65-8 BC)

Odes
Epodes
Satires
Epistles
The Art of Poetry

Livy (Titus Livius) (59 BC - 17 AD)

The History of Rome
(Books 1-10 and 21-45 only;
Books 11-20 and 46-142 are lost to us today)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 BC - 17 AD)


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger) (4 BC-65 AD)

De brevitate vitae (49)
De beneficiis (7 vols: ca. 62-64)
De tranquillitate animi (ca. 62-63)
De provedentia (ca. 63-64)
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (ca. 63-64)
Naturales Quaestiones (7 vols: 63)

Tacitus (54-119 AD)

The Annals
The Histories
Agricola
Germania
Oratory

Epictetus (50-138 AD)


Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 AD)
 Meditations (167 AD)

LATER HELLENIST PHILOSOPHERS

Philo (c. 15 BC to 40 AD)

Plutarch (ca. 45-125 AD)


Nicomachus of Gerasa (ca. 60-120)

Introduction to Arithmetic (Ariqmetike eisagoge)
The Manual of Harmonics

Lucian of Samosata (ca. 120-180)

A True Story
Dialogues of the Gods
Dialogues of the Dead
The Passing of Peregrinus
Philoseudes
Alexander the Oracle-Monger
Zeus Rants

Diogenes Laertius (3rd cent. AD)

 Philosophoi Biol (Lives of the Philosophers)

Plotinus (204-270 AD)

The Six Enneads (250)

Porphyry (232-304)

Isagogue

EARLY CHRISTIANITY
(30 to 500 AD)

THE TRANSLATORS OF THE PALESTIANIAN GOSPEL
INTO A GRECO-ROMAN GOSPEL

Paul (mid first century)

Mark

The Gospel of Mark

Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew

Luke

John (late first century)

THE EARLY CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS--AND MARTYRS (Early 100s)

Clement, Bishop/Presbyter of Rome (late first century: d. ca. 100)

1 Clement

Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch (fl. early 100s)

 To Polycarp
To the Ephesians
To the Magnesians
To the Philadelphians
To the Romans
To the Smyrneans
To the Trallians

Papias, Bishop of Phrygia (fl. early 100s)

 Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord

Polycarp (martyred. ca. 160)

The Martyrdom of Polycarp
Epistle to the Philippians

EARLY DEFINERS OF THE FAITH: THE PRE-NICENE FATHERS (150 to 300 AD)

Justin Martyr (d. 165)

First Apology (ca. 150)
Second Apology
Dialogue with Trypho
On the Sole Government of God

Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (ca. 130-202)
 Against Heretics

Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens) (ca. 150-215)

 Exhortation to the Heathens/Greeks
Instructor/Tutor
The Stromata/Miscellanies

Tertullian (ca. 160-225) Apology (197)

Proscription against the Heretics
Against Marcion
Against Praxeas
To the Martyrs(197)
Patience (197)
Spectacles
Prayer (200)
Modesty
A Treatise on the Soul

 Origen (ca. 185-254)

First Principles
Against Celsus
Prayer
Exhortation to Martyrdom
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (martyred in 258)

The Lapsed
That Idols Are Not Gods
To Donatus
The Unity of the Church

EARLY DISSENTERS FROM THE "CATHOLIC" FAITH

Valentius

Marcion

Montanus

Arius

Sabellius

THE ESTABLISHERS OF ORTHODOX THEOLOGY (300 to 450)

Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260-340)

The Martyrs of Palestine
Life of Constantine
Ecclesiastical History

Athanasius (ca. 296-373)

 On the Incarnation
Against the Heathen/Greeks
Orations against the Arians
Life of Anthony
Defence before Constantius

Basil of Caesarea  (329-379)

The Holy Spirit
Nine Homilies of the Hexaemeron
Letters of St. Basil

Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 330-390)

Theological Orations
Select Letters

Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-394)

That There Are Not Three Gods
Letters

Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (339-397)

On the Christian Faith
On the Mysteries
On the Holy Spirit
Concerning Virgins

Jerome [Hieronymous] (ca. 340-420)

John Chrysostom (ca. 350-407)

Homilies: Gospel of Matthew
Homilies: Gospel of John/Hebrews
Homilies: Acts/Romans
Homilies: Gal./Eph./Philp./Col./Thes./Tim./Titus/Philm.

Augustine (354-430)

Against Pelagius
Free Choice of the Will
Confessions (397)
Against the Manichees/Against the Donatists
On Christian Doctrine
Enchiridion (Faith, Hope and Love)
The Trinity (399-419)
City of God (413-427)
The Predestination of the Saints
The Gift of Perseverance
On the Teacher

The Early Ecumenical Councils


Patrick (mid to late 400s?)

THE DWINDLING DAYS OF GRECO-ROMAN PHILOSOPHY 
(Early 400s to Early 500s)

Proclus Diadochus (c. 410-485)

Commentary on Euclid
Hypotyposis
Book of Causes
Elements
Elements of Physics
Platonic Theology

Boethius (480-524)

THE MIDDLE AGES
(500 to 1400 AD)

CHRISTIANITY AMIDST THE DARKNESS (450 to 1050)

Pope Leo I - The Great (pope: 440-461)

Benedict of Nursia (480-547)

The Rule of Benedict

Columba (521-597)

Pope Gregory I - The Great (pope: 590-604)

Moralia in Job
Book of Pastoral Care

Bede (the "Venerable") (c. 673-735)

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731)
Conversion of England

Boniface (Winfrid) (680-754)

Alcuin (735-804)

John Scotus Erigena (815-877)

The Division of Nature

THE BYZANTINE REMNANT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EAST

1.  The Roman/Byzantine Empire Lives on in the East

Dionysius the Areopagite (ca. 500)

Divine Names
Mystical Theology
Heavenly Hierarchy
Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

Procopius of Caesarea (ca. 500-560) Secret History

Justinian - Byzantine Emperor (527-565)

The Second Council of Constantinople(553)

Maximus the Confessor (ca. 580-662)

2. The Byzantine Remnant in the East

The Third Council of Constantinople (680-681)

John of Damascus (ca. 675-749)

The Fountain of Knowledge: Dialectic; Heresies; Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

The Second Council of Nicea (787)

Cyril (827-869)

Methodius (825-885)

ECCLESIASTICAL/IMPERIAL REVIVAL IN THE WEST (1050 to 1150)

Leo IX (pope: 1049-1054)

Gregory VII [Hildebrand] (pope: 1073-1085)

Dictatus Papae Urban II (pope: 1088-1099)

Concordat of Worms (1122)

Frederick I Hohenstaufen (Barbarossa) (1152-1190)

Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194-1250)

Innocent III (pope: 1198-1216)

POPULAR OR FOLK LITERATURE IN THE WEST

Beowulf (late 800s to early 1100s?) [English / Early English]

Chanson de Roland (late 800s to early 1100s?) [English / Early French]

INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL (1050 to 1250)

Berengar (999-1088)    

De Sacra Coena adversus Lanfrancum

Anselm (1033-1109)


Hugh of St. Victor (fl.early 1100s)

Peter Abelard (1079-1142)


Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

 On Loving God
In Praise of the New Knighthood

Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)

Scivias (Know the Ways [of God]) (1141 -1151)
Liber vitae meritorum (Book of Life's Merits) (1158-1163)
Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum
        (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations) (1150s)
Liber divinorum operum (Book of the Divine Works) (1163-1173/74)
Liber Simplicis Medicinae  (Book of Simple Medicine) --
       or Physica (Natural History)
Liber Compositae Medicinae (Book of Compound Medicine) --
        or Causae et Curae (Causes and Cures)

Peter Lombard (1100-1160)


John of Salisbury (1120-1180) Metalogicon

Joachim of Fiore (1132-1202)

Harmony of the Old and New Testaments
Exposition of the Book of Revelation
Psalterium of Ten Strings
Everlasting Gospel

Peter Waldo

Dominic de Guzman

Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Bernardone)

SECULAR WRITINGS AND DOCUMENTS DURING THE INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL

Magna Carta (1215)

Gottfried von Strassburg (fl. early 1200s)

Tristan and Isolde

FOLK LITERATURE DURING THE 1200s

Niebelungenlied(ca. 1200)

The Saga of Burnt Njal (1200s)

THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1250 to 1350)

1. 13th Century Mystics

Bonaventura (Giovanni di Fidanza) (1217-1274)

Journey into the Soul of God (1259)
Disputed Questions Concerning Christ's Knowledge
Life of St. Francis(1263)
On the Incarnation

Mechtild of Magdeburg

The Flowing Light of the Godhead
2. The Great Age of Scholasticism(1250-1300)

Al-Farabi(875-950)

ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980-1037)

ibn Rushd(Averro?s)(1126-1198)

Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides) (1135-1204)

Guide of the Perplexed
Commentaries "Kit?b al?Siraj"
"Mishneh Torah" Essays: "On the Unity of God"
"On Happiness"
"On the Terminology of Logic"
"On Resurrection"

 Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200-1280)

Opera Omnia (complete works)

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

Manual against the Heathens(early 1260s)
On Being and Essence
On Truth
Summa Theologica
Compendium of Theology
Of God and His Creatures (Summa Contra Gentiles)
On the Principles of Nature
On the Eternity of the World

Roger Bacon (1214-1294)

Siger of Brabant (ca. 1240-1284)

Marsilio of Padua (1290-1343)

3. Anti-Scholastic Skepticism (1300)

Duns Scotus (1265-1308)

A Treatise on God as First Principle

 William of Ockham (1285-1349)

 Dialogus
4. Early 14th Century (1300s) Humanist Poets, Artists and Mystics

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Vita nuova
De vulgari eloquentia (The Eloquence of the Vernacular)
Divina commedia (Divine Comedy)
  Inferno
  Purgatorio
  Paradiso
Il convivio
De monarchia
Rima
Il fiore
Quaestio de aqua et de terra

Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)


Johannes "Meister" Eckhart (1260-1327)

Opus Tripartitum (only fragments survive)
Opus propositionum
Opus qu?stionum
Opus expositionum

 Johannes Tauler (1300-1361)

The Inner Way(36 Sermons)

Heinrich Suso (1295-1360)

The Little Book of Truth

Richard Rolle (1300?-1349)

De incendio amoris (The Fire of Love)
De emendatione vitae (The Mending of Life)
Contemplations of the Fear and Love of God
Remedy against Temptations
The Prick of Conscience
"Thy Joy be in the Love of Jesus"

Jan vanRuysbroeck(1293-1381)

Spiritual Expousals
Adornment
Supreme Truth
Sparkling Stone

Walter Hilton (?-1396)

 The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection
Treatise Written to a Devout Man
The Song of Angels

THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES (1350 to 1400)

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

On the Solitary Life(1346)
Triumphs(1351-1374)
Rime (1374)
Canzone (Sonnets)
Petrarch's Secret
Familiar Letters

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

The Decameron (1350)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

Canterbury Tales[English/Middle English]
Troilus and Criseyde

Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin

Gerard Groote (1340-1384)

Florentius (Florens) Radewijns (1350-1400)

Julian of Norwich (1342-1415)

The Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love
Revelations

Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (late 1300s)

THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
(1400 to Mid 1600s)
ITALIAN HUMANISTS (1400 to Early 1500s)

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64)

Where is he that is born king of the Jews? (1456)

Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457)

Linguistic critique of the 'Donation of Constantine' (1440)
On the True Good

Pope Nicholas V (pope: 1447-1455)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

Oration on the Dignity of Man

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

The Painter
*Notebooks

Niccolo Machiavelli (1467-1527)

 Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius (1513)
Prince (ca. 1515)

 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)

NORTHERN EUROPEAN HUMANISM (Late 1400s to Early 1500s)

Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1446-1471)

Le Morte d'Arthur

Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522)

Jacques Lefevre (1460-1536)

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)


 Thomas More (1478-1535)

 Utopia (1518)
The History of King Richard III

François Rabelais(c. 1494-1553)

Gargantua and Pantagruel

RENAISSANCE MYSTICISM (1400 to Early 1500s)

Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)

 The Imitation of Christ

Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)

 Oratory of Divine Love

EARLY EFFORTS AT REFORM OF THE CHURCH (1350 to 1500)

John Wycliff (1320-1384)

Council of Pisa (1409)

John Hus (1374-1415)

Council of Basel (1431-1449)

Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

THE FIRST GENERATION OF PROTESTANT REFORMERS

Martin Luther (1483-1546)
 The Ninety-Five Theses
The Smalcald Articles
Treatise on Good Works(1520)
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520)
On the Freedom of a Christian (1520)
Order of Public Worship (1523)
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants (1525)
The Smaller Catechism
The Larger Catechism

Karlstadt and Müntzer

Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)

Commentary of True and False Religion (1528)

Oecolampadius

Martin Bucer (Butzer) (1491-1551)

THE NEXT GENERATION OF PROTESTANT REFORMERS

Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)

Augsburg Confession(1530)
The Life and Acts of Martin Luther(1549)

Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)

The Second Helvetic Formula

John Calvin (1509-1564)
 The Institutes of the Christian Religion
On the Christian Life
The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543)
Commentaries

OTHER EARLY REFORMERS

Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

John Knox (1505-1572)

Confession of Faith (1560)

Menno Simmons (1496-1561)

Theodore Beza (1519-1605)

Confession of the Christian Faith (1560)

THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION (1540 to 1600)

Ximenes de Cineros

Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542)

Ignatius de Loyola (1491-1556)

Spiritual Exercises

Pope Paul III (1468-1549)

The Council of Trent (1545-1563)

Canons and Decrees

PURITAN REFORM IN ENGLAND (Mid 1500s Onward)

Thomas Cartwright (1535-1603)

Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

Ecclesiastical Polity

William Perkins (1558-1602)

Edward Coke (1532-1634)

Institutes

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

The Westminster Confession of Faith

James Usher

Body of Divinitie

Samuel Rutherford

Edward Reynolds

John Wilkins (1614-1672)

A Discourse Concerning a New Planet

John Wallis(1616-1703)

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim's Progress (1678)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL PROTESTANTISM (Mid 1500s Onward)

Jakob Arminius (1560-1609)

Synod of Dort (1618-1619)

Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669)

Francis Turretin (1632-1687)

CONTINUING CATHOLIC PIETISM AND MYSTICISM (Mid 1500s Onward)

Teresa of Avila (1516-1582)

 The Way of Perfection
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Interior Castle

John of the Cross (1542-1591)

 Dark Night of the Soul
Ascent of Mount Carmel
A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul
Collected Works

Jacob Böhme (1575-1624)

The Supersensual Life

 Cornelius Jansen(1585-1638)

Augustinus (1640)

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Provincial Letters (1657)
Pensées (1660, but published posthumously)

THE ABIDING SECULAR MOOD

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Essais (over the period 1572-1588)
Apology for Raimond Sebond
Of Books
That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness
Of Friendship
Of the Institution and Education of Children

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

 Don Quixote (1605)
12 Novelas Ejemplares (1613)
Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda(posthumously: 1617)

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

King Richard III (1593)
The Taming of the Shrew (1594)
The Comedy of Errors (1594)
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596)
The Merchant of Venice (1597)
Much Ado about Nothing (1599)
Julius Caesar (1599)
The Twelfth Night (c. 1600)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1601)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1604)
Othello, The Moor of Venice (1605)
King Lear (1606)
Macbeth (1606)
The Tempest (1611)
The Shakespearian Sonnets

Pedro Fernandez Navarrete

Conservation of Monarchies(1626)

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

 Fables (1670-1695)

COLONIAL AMERICA

The Virginia Company


Captain John Smith

 Generall Historie (ca. 1624)

William Bradford


John Winthrop

A Modell of Christian Charity (or: "A City on a Hill" - 1630 sermon)

The Half-Way Covenant (1662)

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  Miles H. Hodges