Ancient Roman Philosophy

Below is a list of philosophical writings from Ancient Rome!

• Cicero

  • On the Republic (c. 54 - 51 BCE)

  • On Duties (c. 44 BCE)

  • On Divination (c. 44 BCE)

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  • On the Admirable Style of Demosthenes (c. 30 BCE)

  • The Arrangement of Words (c. 30 BCE)

  • On the Character of Thucydides (c. 30 BCE)

  • The Art of Rhetoric (c. 30 - 7 BCE)

  • Commentaries on the Attic Orators (c. 20 - 7 BCE)

  • On Imitation (c. 20 - 7 BCE)

• Plutarch

  • Moralia (90 - 120 CE)

• Quintillian

  • Institutio Oratoria (c. 95 - 100 CE)

• Epictitus

  • Enchiridion (c. 108 - 120 CE)

• Arrian

  • Discourses of Epictitus (c. 108 - 130 CE)

• Aulus Gellius

  • Attic Nights (c. 150 - 180 CE)

• Marcus Aurelius

  • The Meditations (c. 170 - 180 CE)

• Clement of Alexandria

  • The Protrepticus (c. 190 - 200 CE)

  • Paedagogus (c. 200 - 205 CE)

  • The Stromata (c. 200 - 215 CE)

• Sextus Empiricus

  • Outlines of Pyrrhonism (c. 200 CE)

  • Against the Mathematicians or Against the Professors (c. 200 CE)

• Philostratus

  • Epistolae (c. 220 - 230 CE)

  • Gymnasticus (c. 220 - 230 CE)

  • Heroicus (c. 220 - 230 CE)

  • Life of Apollonius of Tyana (c. 220 - 230 CE)

  • Lives of the Sophists (c. 230 - 240 CE)

• Diogenes Laertius

  • Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230 - 250 CE)

• Porphyry

  • Isagoge or Introduction to Aristotle's Categories (c. 268 - 270 CE)

  • Against the Christians (c. 270 CE)

  • Life of Plotinus (c. 270 - 275 CE)

  • Life of Pythagoras (c. 270 - 280 CE)

  • On the Abstinence from Killing Animals (c. 270 - 280 CE)

  • On the Cave of  the Nymphs in the Odyssey (c. 270 - 280 CE)

  • Tetrabiblos (c. 270 - 280 CE)

  • Letter to Marcella (c. 303 - 305 CE)

• Iamblichus

  • The Letters (c. 300 CE)

  • On the Mysteries (c. 300 CE)

  • Life of Pythagoras (c. 300 CE)

  • On the Pythagorean Way of Life (c. 300 CE)