The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
201–300
1 work
c. 252
Latin
Ad Demetrianum
Cyprian of Carthage · c. 210–258
A reply to a magistrate who blamed Christians for the wars, plagues, and failing harvests of the age, arguing that a world grown old is not a world being punished for the church.
401–500
2 works
c. 440–450
Latin
De Gubernatione Dei
Salvian of Marseilles · c. 400–c. 490
An argument that the barbarians are overrunning the empire because Roman Christians are more corrupt than the pagans they despise, with the taxes and the arena as evidence.
c. 498–518
Greek
Zosimus
The decline of the empire from Augustus to 410, written by a pagan civil servant who says outright why it happened: Rome prospered while it kept the ancestral rites and collapsed once Constantine abolished them.
3 of 1774 works