The First book of Enoch is one of the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, in other words, a composition attributed to a personage from the Hebrew Bible, but not included in either the Jewish or the Christian Bible. It contains a description…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.In ca.521, the Persian king Darius I the Great ordered that a new alphabet, which…
Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs: brief Latin text, describing the trial of six Christian martyrs executed in 180 CE.The earliest Christian text in the Latin language appears to be little more than a court record. Six Christians from the unknown…
In his Gorgias, the famous Athenian philosopher Plato (427-348 BCE) had attacked the study of oratory with several arguments, which all boiled down to the suspicion that capable rhetors were able to persuade people to bad behavior. More than five…
Aeschines (c.390-c.315): Athenian politician and orator.
Aeschines
During the fourth century, the Greek towns were even more divided than in the fifth century,…
Agathangelos (Greek Ἀγαθάγγελος; second half of the fifth century): Armenian hagiographer, author of a History of St. Gregory and the Conversion of Armenia.
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Alexander's Letter to the Chians: letter by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great to the people of the isle of Chios, evidence of his interference in the internal affairs of his allies.
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Appian of Alexandria (c.95-c.165): one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians, author of a Roman History. The part on the Roman Civil Wars survives in its entirety while substantial parts of the remainder survive as well.Life
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Aristophanes (c.445-c.380): Athenian poet, author of many comedies, of which eleven survive.
Aristophanes
The comedies of the Athenian playwright Aristophanes are a…
Aristotle (384-322): greatest philosopher of Antiquity, teacher of Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
Plato's most famous student was Aristotle of Stagira, the son of…