200–300 AD
From 200 to 300 AD, religious, philosophical, and historical writers deepened reflection on conscience, truth, spiritual freedom, and the dignity of the human person. Hippolytus, Origen, Cyprian, and Eastern Christian liturgical traditions explored faith, moral discipline, and the freedom of the soul before God. Sextus Empiricus challenged dogmatism through skepticism. Plotinus, author of The Ethical Treatises and The Enneads, was the great founder of Neoplatonism, teaching that the soul's ascent toward truth, beauty, and the One offered a profound vision of inner freedom, moral purification, and human dignity beyond the claims of worldly power. Historical writings on China's Three Kingdoms preserved lessons about power, loyalty, and political disorder. These shelves invite visitors to explore a century of searching for truth, self-mastery, and human dignity.
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The Hymns of the Hirmologium
Transcribed by Aglaïa Ayoutanti and Maria Stöhr. Revised and annotated by Carsten Høeg, with the assistance of Jørgen Raasted. Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Transcripta, v. 6. Greek words. Transcription in modern notation of all the hirmi occurring in the Hirmologium Athoum.…
The Treatises of S. Caecilius Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Martyr
Translated, with notes and indices. The Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, v. 3.
Les Sources de Plotin: Dix exposés et discussions
Par E. R. Dodds [et al.]. Vandœuvres-Genève, 21–29 août 1957. Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique, t. 5. Bibliographical footnotes. Contents: Numenius and Ammonius, by E. R. Dodds; Plotin zwischen Platon und Stoa, von W. Theiler; Être, vie, pensée chez Plotin et…
Sextus Empiricus
With an English translation by the Rev. R. G. Bury. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library (Greek authors). Greek and English on opposite pages. Contents: I. Outlines of Pyrrhonism. II. Against the Logicians. III. Against the Physicists. Against the Ethicists.
The Ecclesiastical History
With an English translation by Kirsopp Lake. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library. Library has 2 copies of v. 1 and 1 copy of v. 2.
The Refutation of All Heresies
By Hippolytus; translated by the Rev. J. H. Macmahon, M.A., with fragments from his commentaries on various books of Scripture; translated by the Rev. S. D. F. Salmond.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms: San Kuo Chih Yen-i
Translated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms (220–265)
Chapters 69–78 from the Tzŭ chih t'ung chien, translated and annotated by Achilles Fang; edited by Glen W. Baxter. Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, 6. Library has v. 1.
Contra Celsum
Translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick.
The Song of Songs: Commentary and Homilies
Translated and annotated by R. P. Lawson. Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation, no. 26. Bibliographical references included in “Notes” (p. [307]–371).
The Enneads
Translated by Stephen MacKenna. 2d ed., revised by B. S. Page, with a foreword by E. R. Dodds and an introduction by Paul Henry. Bibliography: p. 626–635.
The Ethical Treatises
Being the treatises of the first Ennead with Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter extracts forming a conspectus of the Plotinian system, translated from the Greek by Stephen Mackenna. Library has 2 copies.
The Essence of Plotinus
Extracts from the six Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, based on the translation by Stephen Mackenna; with an appendix giving some of the most important Platonic and Aristotelian sources on which Plotinus drew, and an annotated bibliography, compiled by…
The Evolution of Buddhist Architecture in Japan
By Alexander Coburn Soper III. Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, XXII. Bibliography: p. 307–317.
The Akathistos Hymn
Introduced and transcribed by Egon Wellesz. Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Transcripta, v. 9. Greek words. Transcription in modern notation based on the Codex Ashburnhamensis 64, from the Laurenziana at Florence. Main entry: Orthodox Eastern Church. Liturgy and ritual. Akathistoi.