List of Ancient Texts
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Tale of Sinuhe – Unknown – c. 1800 BCE

Egyptian Book of the Dead – Various – c. 1550 BCE

Vedas – Various – c. 1500–1000 BCE

Phoenician History – Sanchoniatho – c. 1200 BCE?

Enūma Eliš – Unknown (Babylonian) – c. 1100 BCE

Torah – Moses (trad.) – c. 6th–5th century BCE

Book of Job – Unknown – c. 6th century BCE

Gathas – Zarathushtra – c. 1000–600 BCE

The Iliad – Homer – c. 750 BCE

The Odyssey – Homer – c. 725 BCE

The Cypria – Homer – c. 725 BCE

Works and Days – Hesiod – c. 700 BCE

Homeric Hymns – Homeric Poets –
c. 7th–5th century BCE

Poetry – Sappho – c. 630–570 BCE

[Cosmology] – Pherecydes of Syros – c. 600 BCE

Tao Te Ching – Laozi – c. 600 BCE

The Art of War – Sun Tzu – c. 5th century BCE

Fragments – Heraclitus – c. 500 BCE

The Persians / Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus – c. 525–455 BCE

Book of Jonah – Unknown – c. 5th century BCE

The Bacchae – Euripides – c. 405 BCE

Medea – Euripides – c. 431 BCE

Oedipus Trilogy – Sophocles – c. 429 BCE

History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides – c. 431 BCE

Histories – Herodotus – c. 430 BCE

Anabasis – Xenophon – c. 370 BCE

Metaphysics – Aristotle – c. 350 BCE

The Symposium – Plato – c. 385 BCE

Frogs – Aristophanes – c. 405 BCE

Lives of the Philosophers – Diogenes Laërtius – c. 3rd century BCE

Geography – Eratosthenes – c. 276 BCE

Library of Greek Mythology – Apollodorus – c. 2nd century BCE

Bibliotheca Historica – Diodorus Siculus – c. 60 BCE

Sibylline Oracles – Various – c. 2nd century BCE

Indica – Megasthenes – c. 3rd century BCE

The Argonautica – Apollonius Rhodius – c. 3rd century BCE

On the Nature of the Gods – Cicero – c. 45 BCE

Georgics – Virgil – c. 29 BCE

The Aeneid – Virgil – c. 19 BCE

The Odes – Horace – c. 23 BCE

The Rise of Rome – Livy – c. 25 BCE

Metamorphoses – Ovid – 8 CE

The Twelve Caesars – Suetonius – c. 121 CE

Jewish War / Antiquities – Josephus – c. 75–90 CE

Letters of Paul – Paul – c. 50–65 CE

The Gospel of John – Unknown – c. 90 CE

The Book of Revelation – John of Patmos – c. 95 CE

The Roman Histories – Tacitus – c. 100 CE

The Satyricon – Petronius – c. 100 CE

Epigrams – Martial – c. 86–103 CE

The Golden Ass – Apuleius – c. 160 CE

Refutation of All Heresies – Hippolytus of Rome – c. 230 CE

The Dionysiaca – Nonnus of Panopolis – c. 5th century CE

Mathêsis – Firmicus Maternus – c. 334 CE (Latin)

Ancient Christian Writers – Firmicus Maternus
c. 334 CE

Against the Pagans – Arnobius – c. 300 CE

Against Heresies – Irenaeus – c. 180 CE

Introduction to Astrology – Paul of Alexandria
– c. 378 CE

The Handbook of Platonism – Alcinous – c. 150 CE

Achilleid – Statius – c. 96 CE

Daphnis and Chloe – Longus – c. 2nd century CE

Oneirocritica – Artemidorus – c. 2nd century CE

The Orphic Hymns – Attributed to Orpheus – c. 3rd century BCE or later

Corpus Hermeticum – Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus – c. 2nd–3rd century CE

Gospel of Thomas – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Gospel of Mary Magdalene – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Gospel of Judas – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Apocryphon of John – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Apocryphon of James – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

The Gnostic Bible – Various – 2nd–4th century CE

Kore Kosmou (Virgin of the World) – Hermes Trismegistus – c. 3rd century CE

Plotinus’ Enneads – Plotinus – c. 250 CE

Maximus of Tyre’s Orations – Maximus of Tyre – c. 2nd century CE

Greek Magical Papyri – Various – 1st–4th century CE

Mithras Liturgy – Unknown – c. 2nd–3rd century CE

Ishtar’s Descent – Unknown – Mesopotamia – date disputed (likely earlier, c. 1000 BCE but compiled later)

Description of Greece – Pausanias – c. 2nd century CE

Roman History – Cassius Dio – c. 3rd century CE

Natural History – Pliny the Elder – c. 77 CE

Selected Letters & Writings – Pliny the Younger – c. 100 CE

Selected Letters & Tragedies – Seneca the Younger – c. 65 CE

Writings – Seneca – c. 1st century CE

Cosmology and Commentaries – Proclus – c. 5th century CE

Elements – Euclid – c. 300 BCE

Mathematical Works – Archimedes – c. 287 BCE

Erotic Epigrams (Greek Anthology) – Various – c. 2nd century BCE

Propertius’ Elegies – Propertius – c. 1st century BCE

The Nature of the Universe – Lucretius – c. 55 BCE

Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian (trans.) – Thomas Taylor – 19th century CE

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Ancient Texts

Ancient Texts is a curated collection of the foundational writings of human civilization, spanning three millennia and encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, and literary achievements of the ancient world. From the sacred hymns of the Vedas and the mystical rites of Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the epic poetry of Homer and Virgil, the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and the philosophical treatises of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, this library traces the evolution of thought, myth, and history. It also embraces esoteric and mystical traditions, including Hermetic, Orphic, and Gnostic works, alongside early Christian texts, cosmologies, and magical papyri. Ancient Texts illuminates the intertwined realms of myth, science, spirituality, and human imagination, offering a window into the ideas that shaped the foundations of our world.