Ethics & virtue
How to live: virtue, duty, the passions, and the happy life, from Aristotle and the Stoics to Ambrose.
Key terms: ἀρετή (arete), ἦθος (ethos), virtus, officium, φρόνησις (phronesis) — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- Exposition of the Christian Faith
- Letters
- Memorial (Relatio III, the Altar of Victory debate)
- On the Duties of the Clergy (De Officiis)
- On the Holy Spirit
- On the Mysteries
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- On the Soul (De Anima)
- Physics
- Four Discourses Against the Arians
- Enchiridion
- The Consolation of Philosophy
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- De Officiis
- De Oratore
- De Re Publica
- Letters to Atticus
- Letters to Friends
- Philippics
- Paedagogus (The Instructor)
- Protrepticus (Exhortation to the Heathen)
- Stromata
- The Faerie Queene, Book I
- Discourses
- Enchiridion
- Fragments
- The Shepherd
- Ars Poetica
- Epistles
- Odes
- Satires
- Satires
- Meditations
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- Alcibiades I
- Alcibiades II
- Apology
- Charmides
- Cleitophon
- Cratylus
- Critias
- Crito
- Epinomis
- Euthydemus
- Euthyphro
- Gorgias
- Hipparchus
- Hippias Major
- Hippias Minor
- Ion
- Laches
- Laws
- Letters
- Lovers
- Lysis
- Menexenus
- Meno
- Minos
- Parmenides
- Phaedo
- Phaedrus
- Philebus
- Protagoras
- Republic
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Symposium
- Theaetetus
- Theages
- Timaeus
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Consolation to His Wife
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- Isis and Osiris
- On Controlling Anger
- On Fortune
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- On the Education of Children
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Platonic Questions
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
- Letters to Lucilius
- Medea
- On Tranquility of Mind
- On the Happy Life
- On the Shortness of Life
- Phaedra
- Anabasis
- Apology of Socrates
- Cyropaedia
- Hellenica
- Memorabilia
- Symposium
Ambrose of Milan
Aristotle
Athanasius
Augustine of Hippo
Boethius
Cicero
Clement of Alexandria
Edmund Spenser
Epictetus
Hermas
Horace
Juvenal
Marcus Aurelius
Philo of Alexandria
Plato
Plutarch
Seneca
Xenophon
Research guides
- New Book Explores Author or Narrator in Classical Antiquity?
- New Book Explores Plato the Choreographer
- New Book Explores The Platonism of Proclus
- New Book Explores "The Discord of Aristotle and Plato"
- New Study Examines Illegitimate Gods in Lucian, Cicero And Plutarch: Connecting Scepticism And Religion
- New Study Examines Trojan Cicero: A Note On Philippics 2.55
- New Study Examines Aristotle on Perceptual Delay
- New Study Examines Euripides, Suppliant Women 442