Genres

The ancients classed all literature into the following:

1. Rhetoric
2. Law
3. Epic
4. Tragedy
5. Comedy
6. Lyric Poetry
7. History
8. Medicine
9. Mathematic
10. Natural Science

Obviously there are some works which parts fall into many genres, and others which are altogether extraordinary.

References

• Callimachus. Pinaces.

My Library

Translation recommendations prioritize:

• Being based on majority text types, i.e. non-critical.
• Use archaic, or older, language, which is less demeaned.

Considered also, of course, is the character of the translator.

For Christian:

Where translation is unspecified, presume the Nicæne & Post-Nicæne Fathers series.

For Greek:

Where translation is unspecified, I generally recommend the Loeb Library where others—or at any rate good—aren’t available.

The Alexander “Romance” text-type most widely recieved by the Romans was the β-type MSS.

For Chinese:

My use of Wade-Giles for Chinese is not an endorsement of Taiwanese independence. It’s the traditional English translation of Chinese names.

Index

American

• Dyer, Jay – Esoteric Hollywood
• FM 3-05.70 Survival
• Kaczynski, Theodore – Industrial Society and Its Future
• Webster, Noah – International Dictionary of the English Language

Arabic

• Al-Jazari – Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

Chinese

• Kung-tzu; tr. Soothill, William Edward – Analects
• Lao-tzu; tr. Chia-fu, Feng – Tao Te Ching
• Tung Chong-shu – Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn

Christian

• Alexandrow, Daniel, Bp. – The Reader Service Typicon
• Athanasius the Great, St; tr. Lawson, Penelope – On the Incarnation
• The Apostol, tr. Arhipov, Sergei
• Barnabas, St; tr. Lightfoot, J.B. – Epistle
• Basil the Great, St. – Hexæmeron
• Basil the Great, St. – Letters
• Basil the Great, St. – On the Spirit
• Bede, St. – The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
• Christensen, Damascene, Fr. – Christ the Eternal Tao
• Christensen, Damascene, Fr. – Fr. Seraphim Rose, His Life and Works
• Clement of Rome, St; tr. Lightfoot, J.B. – First Epistle to the Corinthians
• Clement of Rome, St; tr. Lightfoot, J.B. – Second Epistle to the Corinthians
• Constantine the Purple-born, Emp. – Book of Ceremonies
• Cyril of Jerusalem, St; tr. Oxford. – The Catechetical Lectures
• The Didache, tr. Lightfoot, J.B.
• De Young, Stephen, Fr. – God is a Man of War
• De Young, Stephen, Fr. – Religion of the Apostles
• Dionysius the Areopagite, St; tr. Parker, John – Epistles
• Dionysius the Areopagite, St; tr. Parker, John – On the Celestial Hierarchy
• Dionysius the Areopagite, St; tr. Parker, John – On the Divine Names
• Dionysius the Areopagite, St; tr. Parker, John – On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
• Dionysius the Areopagite, St; tr. Parker, John – The Mystic Theology
• Enoch (I), tr. Charles, R.H.
• Ephraim of Arizona, El. – My Elder Joseph the Hesychast
• Epiphanius of Salamis, St. – On Weights and Measures
• Epiphanius of Salamis, St; tr. Frank Williams – Panarium
• Fekula, Peter; Williams, Matthew – The Order of Divine Services
• The Flowery Triodion, tr. Lambertsen, Joseph, Fr.
• Gregory of Nyssa, St; tr. Paulist Press – The Life of Moses
• Gregory the Theologian, St; tr. Vinson, Martha – Select Orations
• Gregory the Theologian, St; tr. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press – The Theological Orations
• Gregory the Theologian, St; tr. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press – Two Letters to Cledonius
• Hippolytus of Rome, St. – Chronicon
• The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims)
• The Holy Bible (KJV)
• The Holy Bible (OSB)
• The Horologion, tr. Campbell, Laurence, Fr.
• Ignatius Theophorus, St; tr. Lightfoot, J.B. – Epistles
• Irenæus of Lyons, St. – Against Heresies
• Isaac the Syrian, St. – The Ascetical Homilies
• Isidore of Seville, St. – The Etymologies
• John Chrysostom, St – The Divine Liturgy (Church Slavonic-English Parallel)
• John Climacus, St; tr. Moore, Lazarus, Fr. – The Ladder of Divine Ascent
• John of Damascus, St; tr. Chase, Friedrich H., Jr. – The Fount of Knowledge
• John of Kronstadt, St. – My Life in Christ
• Joseph the Hesychast, St. – Monastic Wisdom
• Justin the Philosopher, St. – Dialogue with Trypho the Jew – Horatory Address to the Greeks
• Korz, Geoffrey, Fr. – A Guide for Readers in the Orthodox Church
• Liebmann, Zacharias, Fr. – Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II
• Malalas, John; tr. Jefferys, Elizabeth & Michael; Scott, Roger – Chronography
• Marler, John, Fr; Wermuth, Andrew, Fr. – Youth of the Apocalypse: and the Last True Rebellion
• The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp,, tr. Lightfoot, J.B.
• Maximus the Confessor, St. – The Cosmic Mystery of Christ
• The Menaion (General), tr. Orloff, Nikolai
• Meyendorff, John – Byzantine Theology
• Nemesius of Emesa, Bp. – On the Nature of Man
• Nennius; Giles, John Allen – The History of the Britons
• Nestor the Chronicler, St; tr. Cross, Samuel Hazzard – Tale of Bygone Years
• The New Testament, (Byzantine Textform)
• The New Testament, (EOB)
• Nicodemus the Hagiorite, St; Macarius of Corinth, St; tr. Palmer, G.E.H; Sherrard, Philip; Ware, Callistus, Bp. – The Philocalia (5 Vols.)
• Nicodemus the Hagiorite, St; Macarius of Corinth, St; tr. Scuburdis, Anna – The Philocalia (Vol. 5)
• The Octoechos, tr. Lambertsen, Joseph, Fr.
• The Old Testament, tr. Benton, Lancelot
• Palamas, Gregory, St; tr. John Meyendorf – The Triads
• Philo the Jew – Allegorical Interpreation of Genesis
• Postnikov, Gregory, Mtr; tr. Englehard, Seraphim F. – How to Live a Holy Life
• Prayer Book, tr. Jordanville
• The Psalter, tr. Boston
• Rose, Seraphim, Fr. – Genesis, Creation and Early Man
• Rose, Seraphim, Fr. – Nihilism, the Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
• Rose, Seraphim, Fr. – Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
• Rose, Seraphim, Fr. – The Soul after Death
• Rose, Seraphim, Fr. – Survival Course
• The Sayings of the Desert Fathers,, tr. Ward, Benedict
• The Shepherd of Hermas, tr. Lightfoot, J.B.
• Scholarius, Gennadius, St. – Contra Aquinas
• Scholarius, Gennadius, St. – On the Distinction
• Skylitzes, John; tr. Cambridge University – Synopsis of Histories
• The Suda
• Sysoev, Daniel, St. – A Chronicle of the Beginning
• Sysoev, Daniel, St. – How Can I Learn God’s Will?
• Sysoev, Daniel, St. – Letters
• Sysoev, Daniel, St. – Talks on the Passions
• Theophanes the Confessor, St. – Chronicle
• The Triodion, tr. Ware, Callistus, Bp; Mary, Mo.
• Velimirović, Nikolai, St. – The Prologue from Ohrid

Greek

• Aristotle – Categories
• Aristotle – Metaphysics
• Aristotle – On Interpretation
• Aristotle – Politics
• Aristotle – Posterior Analytics
• Aristotle – Prior Analytics
• Aristotle – Sophistical Refutions
• Aristotle – Topica
• Callisthenes; tr. Stoneman, Richard – Alexander Romance
• Damascius; tr. Ahbel-Rappe, Sara – Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles
• Euclid – The Elements
• Galen; tr. Cambridge University – On the Faculties of Aliments
• Galen – On the Natural Faculties
• Galen – On the Usefulness of Parts
• Herodotus – The Histories
• Hesiod – Theogny
• Hesiod – Works and Days
• Hippocrates – Ancient Medicine
• Hippocrates – On the Nature of Man
• Hippocrates – On the Wounds in the Head
• Hippocrates – Prognostic
• Homer; tr. Pope, Alexander – Illiad
• Homer; tr. Pope, Alexander – Odyssey
• Iamblichus; tr. Taylor, Thomas – Life of Pythagoras
• Iamblichus; tr. Taylor, Thomas – On the Ægyptian Mysteries
• Iamblichus – The Theology of Arithmetic
• Laërtius, Diogenes – Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
• Manetho – Ægyptica
• Nicomachus; tr. Levin, Flora R. – Manual of Harmonics
• Plato; tr. Jowett, Benjamin – Dialogues
• Plotinus; tr. MacKenna, Stephen – The Enneads
• Plutarch – Moralia
• Plutarch – Parallel Lives
• Porphyry – Isagoge
• Proclus – Theology of Plato
• Ptolemy; tr. Taliaferro, Catesby – Almagest
• Theophrastus – Enquiry into Plants
• Thrax, Dionysius – The Art of Grammar
• Thucydides; tr. Hobbes, Thomas – The Peloponnesian War

Latin

• Cæsar, Julius – Commentaries on the Civil War
• Cæsar, Julius – Commentaries on the Gallic War
• Ovid; tr. Golding, Arthur – The Metamorphoses
• Virgil – Æneid

Norse

• Sturleson, Snorre; tr. Anderson, Rasmus B. – The Younger Edda

Unsorted

• Collar, William C; Daniell, M. Grant – Beginner’s Latin Book
• DeFrancis, John – Beginning Chinese
• DeFrancis, John – Beginning Chinese Reader
• Smith, J. Payne – A Compendious Syriac Dictionary