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. 231; survives in fragments
Greek
Kestoi
Julius Africanus · c. 160 – c. 240
An encyclopedia in twenty-four books dedicated to Severus Alexander, mixing agriculture, medicine, military engineering, tactics, and frank magic — how to make a horse sweat, how to poison a well, what to chant over a wound.
801–900
1 work
c. 842–847
Latin
De Rerum Naturis
Rabanus Maurus · c. 780 – 856
Twenty-two books rebuilding Isidore's Etymologies with a second layer added: after each thing is defined, Rabanus gives what it signifies in scripture, so that a reader looking up a lion, a stone, or a colour finds both the natural fact and the allegory.
2 of 1774 works