Letters & biography
Lives written and letters kept: the ancient art of the letter and the biographies of saints, emperors, and philosophers.
Key terms: ἐπιστολή (epistole), epistula, vita, βίος (bios), memoria — 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
- Letter of Aristeas
- Life of Adam and Eve
- Life of St. Anthony
- Epistle of Barnabas
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- De Officiis
- De Oratore
- De Re Publica
- Letters to Atticus
- Letters to Friends
- Philippics
- First Epistle to the Corinthians
- Second Epistle to the Corinthians
- Life of Constantine
- Letters
- Letters
- Life of St. Macrina
- Epistles
- Life of Pythagoras
- Epistle to Polycarp
- Epistle to the Ephesians
- Epistle to the Magnesians
- Epistle to the Philadelphians
- Epistle to the Romans
- Epistle to the Smyrnaeans
- Epistle to the Trallians
- De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men)
- Letters
- The Life of Josephus
- Letter to Origen
- Epistle to Diognetus
- Letter to Africanus
- Letter to Gregory Thaumaturgus
- Lausiac History
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- Letters
- Letters
- Epistle to the Philippians
- The Martyrdom of Polycarp
- Letter to Marcella
- Life of Plotinus
- Life of Pythagoras
- Letters to Lucilius
- Life of Augustus
- Life of Caligula
- Life of Claudius
- Life of Domitian
- Life of Galba
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Life of Nero
- Life of Otho
- Life of Tiberius
- Life of Titus
- Life of Vespasian
- Life of Vitellius
- Constantinople I (381): Creed, Canons, and Letters
Ambrose of Milan
Anonymous
Athanasius
Barnabas
Cicero
Clement of Rome
Clement of Rome (attributed)
Eusebius of Caesarea
Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nyssa
Horace
Iamblichus
Ignatius of Antioch
Jerome
Josephus
Julius Africanus
Mathetes
Origen
Palladius
Philo of Alexandria
Plato
Pliny the Younger
Polycarp
Porphyry
Seneca
Suetonius
The Ecumenical Councils
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 Euripides, Suppliant Women 442
- New Study Examines Tragedy and Politics in Horace, Odes 1.6