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101 authors · 501 works · 15742k words

Every author on Ad Fontes, A–Z. Dates marked c. are approximate; anonymous and collective authors are listed under their traditional names.

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A

Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC) — Greek tragedy7 works · 69.7k words

Research guides mentioning Aeschylus

Ambrose of Milan (c. 340–397) — Latin Father, Bishop of Milan6 works · 279.6k words
Anonymous (Second Temple period) — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha24 works · 260k words
Anonymous (Coptic Gnostic) (c. 3rd century) — Coptic Gnostic literature1 works · 90.1k words
  • Pistis Sophia
    Anonymous (Coptic Gnostic) · English · 90.1k words
Apelles (2nd century) — Marcionite teacher (fragments only)1 works · 203 words
Aphrahat (c. 270–345) — Syriac Father1 works · 48.9k words
Apollonius of Rhodes (c. 295–215 BC) — Hellenistic poetry1 works · 38.8k words
  • Argonautica
    Apollonius of Rhodes · Greek only · 38.8k words
Apuleius (c. 125–180) — Latin novelist and Platonist1 works · 126.0k words
Aristobulus of Alexandria (2nd century BC) — Jewish philosopher (fragments only)1 works · 2.5k words
Aristophanes (c. 446–386 BC) — Greek comedy11 works · 111.7k words
  • Acharnians
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 7.7k words
  • Birds
    Aristophanes · Greek + English · 16.4k words
  • Clouds
    Aristophanes · Greek + English · 15.1k words
  • Ecclesiazusae
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.4k words
  • Frogs
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 10.0k words
  • Knights
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 9.5k words
  • Lysistrata
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.8k words
  • Peace
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.7k words
  • Thesmophoriazusae
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 7.9k words
  • Wasps
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 10.4k words
  • Wealth
    Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.8k words
Aristotle (384–322 BC) — Greek philosophy4 works · 317.0k words

Research guides mentioning Aristotle

Athanasius (c. 296–373) — Greek Father, Bishop of Alexandria4 works · 102.4k words
Athenagoras (2nd century) — Christian apologist2 works · 28.8k words
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) — Latin Father, Bishop of Hippo5 works · 687.6k words

B

Barnabas (late 1st – early 2nd century) — Apostolic Fathers1 works · 9.5k words
Basil of Caesarea (c. 330–379) — Cappadocian Father4 works · 96.9k words
Basilides (2nd century) — Gnostic teacher (fragments only)1 works · 3k words
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) — English drama2 works · 62k words
Boethius (c. 477–524) — Roman philosophy1 works · 40.0k words

C

Catullus (c. 84–54 BC) — Latin lyric poetry1 works · 19.8k words
  • Poems
    Catullus · Latin + English · 19.8k words
Celsus (2nd century) — Platonic critic of Christianity (fragments via Origen)1 works · 20.8k words
Cicero (106–43 BC) — Roman oratory and philosophy7 works · 265.4k words

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Clement of Alexandria (c. 150–215) — Alexandrian teacher3 works · 316.1k words
Clement of Rome (late 1st century) — Apostolic Fathers, Bishop of Rome1 works · 13.5k words
Clement of Rome (attributed) (2nd century) — Apostolic Fathers (attributed)1 works · 4.2k words
Council of Constance (1414–1418) — Church council2 works · 765 words
Council of Trent (1545–1563) — Church council25 works · 84.8k words
Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444) — Greek Father, Patriarch of Alexandria5 works · 846.3k words

D

Demosthenes (384–322 BC) — Greek oratory8 works · 58.2k words
Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC) — Greek historiography1 works · 200.6k words

E

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) — English poetry1 works · 73.5k words
Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306–373) — Syriac hymnographer5 works · 108.4k words
Epictetus (c. 55–135) — Stoic philosophy3 works · 144.2k words
  • Discourses
    Epictetus · Greek + English · 127.8k words
  • Enchiridion
    Epictetus · Greek + English · 8.2k words
  • Fragments
    Epictetus · Greek + English · 8.3k words
Euripides (c. 480–406 BC) — Greek tragedy19 works · 233.6k words
  • Alcestis
    Euripides · Greek + English · 10.6k words
  • Andromache
    Euripides · Greek + English · 11.7k words
  • Cyclops
    Euripides · Greek + English · 6.7k words
  • Electra
    Euripides · Greek + English · 12.2k words
  • Hecuba
    Euripides · Greek + English · 11.4k words
  • Helen
    Euripides · Greek + English · 15.8k words
  • Heracleidae
    Euripides · Greek + English · 9.8k words
  • Heracles
    Euripides · Greek + English · 13.0k words
  • Hippolytus
    Euripides · Greek + English · 12.4k words
  • Ion
    Euripides · Greek + English · 15.4k words
  • Iphigenia in Aulis
    Euripides · Greek + English · 14.8k words
  • Iphigenia in Tauris
    Euripides · Greek + English · 12.9k words
  • Medea
    Euripides · Greek + English · 13.1k words
  • Orestes
    Euripides · Greek + English · 15.4k words
  • Rhesus
    Euripides · Greek + English · 8.9k words
  • The Bacchae
    Euripides · Greek + English · 11.6k words
  • The Phoenician Women
    Euripides · Greek + English · 15k words
  • The Suppliants
    Euripides · Greek + English · 11.3k words
  • The Trojan Women
    Euripides · Greek + English · 11.6k words

Research guides mentioning Euripides

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260–340) — Church historian4 works · 685.3k words

F

First Vatican Council (1869–1870) — Church council2 works · 7.2k words
Fourth Lateran Council (1215) — Church council1 works · 3.4k words

G

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) — English poetry1 works · 265.3k words
Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329–390) — Cappadocian Father3 works · 277.8k words
Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335–395) — Cappadocian Father9 works · 293.2k words

H

Hegesippus (2nd century) — Early chronicler (fragments only)1 works · 4.0k words
Hermas (2nd century) — Apostolic Fathers1 works · 37.3k words
Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC) — Greek historiography2 works · 253.4k words
Hesiod (c. 700 BC) — Greek epic poetry2 works · 18.4k words

Research guides mentioning Hesiod

Homer (c. 8th century BC) — Greek epic poetry2 works · 304.1k words
  • Iliad
    Homer · Greek + English · 173.5k words
  • Odyssey
    Homer · Greek + English · 130.6k words

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Horace (65–8 BC) — Latin lyric poetry4 works · 36.2k words
  • Ars Poetica
    Horace · Latin + English · 7.3k words
  • Epistles
    Horace · Latin only · 9.9k words
  • Odes
    Horace · Latin + English · 18.8k words
  • Satires
    Horace · Latin + English · 119 words

Research guides mentioning Horace

I

Iamblichus (c. 245–325) — Neoplatonism2 works · 109.5k words
Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35–108) — Apostolic Fathers, Bishop of Antioch7 works · 12.2k words
Isocrates (436–338 BC) — Greek oratory2 works · 42.8k words
  • Antidosis
    Isocrates · Greek + English · 26k words
  • Panegyricus
    Isocrates · Greek + English · 16.7k words

J

Jerome (c. 347–420) — Latin Father2 works · 331.2k words
John Chrysostom (c. 347–407) — Greek Father, preacher of Antioch3 works · 129.5k words
John Donne (1572–1631) — English poetry1 works · 3.3k words
John Milton (1608–1674) — English poetry3 works · 112.8k words
Josephus (c. 37–100) — Jewish historiography31 works · 745.9k words
Julius Africanus (c. 160–240) — Early Christian chronography1 works · 515 words
Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) — Roman historiography and politics2 works · 139k words
  • Civil War
    Julius Caesar · Latin + English · 53k words
  • Gallic War
    Julius Caesar · Latin + English · 86.0k words
Justin Martyr (c. 100–165) — Christian apologist3 works · 92.9k words
Juvenal (c. 55–127) — Latin satire1 works · 24.9k words
  • Satires
    Juvenal · Latin only · 24.9k words

L

Livy (59 BC–AD 17) — Roman historiography1 works · 281.4k words
Lucretius (c. 99–55 BC) — Latin philosophical poetry1 works · 74.2k words
Lysias (c. 445–380 BC) — Greek oratory8 works · 25.4k words

M

Marcion of Sinope (c. 85–160) — Heresiarch (testimonia only)1 works · 2k words
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) — Stoic philosophy, Roman emperor1 works · 50.6k words
  • Meditations
    Marcus Aurelius · Greek + English · 50.6k words
Martial (c. 40–104) — Latin epigram1 works · 56.2k words
  • Epigrams
    Martial · Latin only · 56.2k words
Mathetes (2nd century) — Christian apologist1 works · 4.2k words
Minucius Felix (2nd–3rd century) — Christian apologist1 works · 20.0k words
  • Octavius
    Minucius Felix · English · 20.0k words

N

Numenius of Apamea (2nd century) — Middle Platonism (fragments)1 works · 1.1k words
  • Fragments
    Numenius of Apamea · English · 1.1k words

O

Origen (c. 185–253) — Alexandrian teacher6 works · 553.7k words
Ovid (43 BC–AD 17) — Latin poetry2 works · 155.2k words

Research guides mentioning Ovid

P

Palladius (c. 363–431) — Monastic literature1 works · 42.9k words
Pantaenus (2nd century) — Alexandrian teacher (testimonia only)1 works · 380 words
Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–130) — Apostolic Fathers, Bishop of Hierapolis1 works · 1.9k words
Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BC–AD 50) — Jewish philosophy36 works · 797.0k words
Plato (c. 428–348 BC) — Greek philosophy36 works · 787.7k words
  • Alcibiades I
    Plato · Greek + English · 15.2k words
  • Alcibiades II
    Plato · Greek + English · 5.9k words
  • Apology
    Plato · Greek + English · 11.7k words
  • Charmides
    Plato · Greek + English · 11k words
  • Cleitophon
    Plato · Greek + English · 2.4k words
  • Cratylus
    Plato · Greek + English · 24k words
  • Critias
    Plato · Greek + English · 7.2k words
  • Crito
    Plato · Greek + English · 5.7k words
  • Epinomis
    Plato · Greek + English · 9.2k words
  • Euthydemus
    Plato · Greek + English · 17.0k words
  • Euthyphro
    Plato · Greek + English · 7.0k words
  • Gorgias
    Plato · Greek + English · 36.7k words
  • Hipparchus
    Plato · Greek + English · 3.3k words
  • Hippias Major
    Plato · Greek + English · 11.5k words
  • Hippias Minor
    Plato · Greek + English · 5.7k words
  • Ion
    Plato · Greek + English · 5.2k words
  • Laches
    Plato · Greek + English · 10.7k words
  • Laws
    Plato · Greek + English · 147k words
  • Letters
    Plato · Greek + English · 25.6k words
  • Lovers
    Plato · Greek + English · 3.4k words
  • Lysis
    Plato · Greek + English · 9.7k words
  • Menexenus
    Plato · Greek + English · 7.3k words
  • Meno
    Plato · Greek + English · 13.1k words
  • Minos
    Plato · Greek + English · 3.7k words
  • Parmenides
    Plato · Greek + English · 19.6k words
  • Phaedo
    Plato · Greek + English · 27.4k words
  • Phaedrus
    Plato · Greek + English · 23.2k words
  • Philebus
    Plato · Greek + English · 24.0k words
  • Protagoras
    Plato · Greek + English · 23.5k words
  • Republic
    Plato · Greek + English · 124.2k words
  • Sophist
    Plato · Greek + English · 23.7k words
  • Statesman
    Plato · Greek + English · 25.4k words
  • Symposium
    Plato · Greek + English · 23.6k words
  • Theaetetus
    Plato · Greek + English · 33.9k words
  • Theages
    Plato · Greek + English · 5k words
  • Timaeus
    Plato · Greek + English · 34.9k words

Research guides mentioning Plato

Pliny the Younger (AD 61–113) — Roman letters1 works · 65.6k words
  • Letters
    Pliny the Younger · Latin only · 65.6k words
Plotinus (c. 204–270) — Neoplatonism3 works · 316.5k words
Plutarch (c. 46–120) — Greek moral philosophy14 works · 183.6k words

Research guides mentioning Plutarch

Polybius (c. 200–118 BC) — Greek historiography1 works · 410.5k words
  • Histories
    Polybius · Greek + English · 410.5k words
Polycarp (c. 69–155) — Apostolic Fathers, Bishop of Smyrna2 works · 6.0k words
Porphyry (c. 234–305) — Neoplatonism7 works · 100.5k words

Q

Quadratus (2nd century) — Christian apologist (fragment)1 works · 145 words

S

Sallust (86–34 BC) — Roman historiography2 works · 58k words
Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) — Church council17 works · 1.8k words
Seneca (c. 4 BC–AD 65) — Stoic philosophy and tragedy6 works · 153.7k words
Socrates Scholasticus (c. 380–439) — Church historian1 works · 133k words
Sophocles (c. 497–406 BC) — Greek tragedy7 works · 94.9k words
  • Ajax
    Sophocles · Greek + English · 13.3k words
  • Antigone
    Sophocles · Greek + English · 12k words
  • Electra
    Sophocles · Greek + English · 13.6k words
  • Oedipus Rex
    Sophocles · Greek + English · 14.2k words
  • Oedipus at Colonus
    Sophocles · Greek + English · 16.0k words
  • Philoctetes
    Sophocles · Greek + English · 13.9k words
  • Trachiniae
    Sophocles · Greek + English · 11.9k words

Research guides mentioning Sophocles

Sozomen (c. 400–450) — Church historian1 works · 152.8k words
Suetonius (c. 69–122) — Roman biography12 works · 143k words

T

Tacitus (c. 56–120) — Roman historiography4 works · 271.9k words
  • Agricola
    Tacitus · Latin + English · 5.8k words
  • Annals
    Tacitus · Latin + English · 158.2k words
  • Germania
    Tacitus · Latin + English · 9.5k words
  • Histories
    Tacitus · Latin + English · 98.5k words
Tatian (c. 120–180) — Christian apologist2 works · 14.9k words
Tertullian (c. 155–220) — Latin Father4 works · 228.4k words
The Ecumenical Councils (325–787) — Church councils7 works · 67k words
Theocritus (c. 300–260 BC) — Hellenistic poetry1 works · 19.4k words
  • Idylls
    Theocritus · Greek only · 19.4k words
Theodoret of Cyrus (c. 393–457) — Church historian1 works · 88k words
Theophilus of Antioch (2nd century) — Christian apologist, Bishop of Antioch1 works · 27.4k words
Thucydides (c. 460–400 BC) — Greek historiography1 works · 225.6k words

U

Unknown (late 1st – early 2nd century) — Apostolic Fathers1 works · 2.9k words

V

Valentinus (c. 100–160) — Gnostic teacher (fragments only)1 works · 1.3k words
Virgil (70–19 BC) — Latin epic poetry3 works · 130.3k words
  • Aeneid
    Virgil · Latin + English · 100.9k words
  • Eclogues
    Virgil · Latin + English · 8.2k words
  • Georgics
    Virgil · Latin + English · 21.1k words

W

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) — English drama and poetry44 works · 927.3k words

X

Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC) — Greek historiography and philosophy6 works · 368.8k words