Ancient Roman Philosophical Writings

Below is a list of philosophical writings from Ancient Rome!

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus (60 - 7 BC)

  • On the Admirable Style of Demosthenes

  • The Arrangement of Words

  • The Art of Rhetoric

  • On the Character of Thucydides

  • Commentaries on the Attic Orators

  • On Imitation

• Quintillian (35 - 100 AD)

  • Institutio Oratoria

• Epictitus (50 - 135 AD)

  • Enchiridion

• Arrian (86 - 160 AD)

  • Discourses of Epictitus

• Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 AD)

  • The Meditations

• Aulus Gellius (125 - 180 AD)

  • Attic Nights

• Clement of Alexandria (150 - 215 AD)

  • The Protrepticus

  • Paedagogus

  • The Stromata

• Philostratus (170s - 240s AD)

  • Epistolae

  • Gymnasticus

  • Heroicus

  • Life of Apollonius of Tyana

  • Lives of the Sophists

• Sextus Empiricus (2nd - 3rd Century AD)

  • Outlines of Pyrrhonism

  • Against the Mathematicians or Against the Professors

• Iamblichus (245 - 325 AD)

  • The Letters

  • On the Mysteries

  • Life of Pythagoras

  • On the Pythagorean Way of Life

• Diogenes Laertius (3rd Century AD)

  • Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

• Porphyry (234 - 305 AD)

  • On the Abstinence from Killing Animals

  • Against the Christians

  • On the Cave of  the Nymphs in the Odyssey

  • Isagoge or Introduction to Aristotle's Categories

  • Letter to Marcella

  • Life of Plotinus

  • Life of Pythagoras

  • Tetrabiblos

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