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.
301–400
2 works
c. 303–304
Latin
De Opificio Dei
Lactantius · c. 250 – c. 325
Written while the persecution was running, and about anatomy. Lactantius walks through the body part by part — the eye, the ear, the hand, the arrangement of the teeth — arguing that nothing in it is accidental, against Epicurus, who said the organs came first and their uses after.
c. 313–316
Latin
De Ira Dei
Lactantius · c. 250 – c. 325
Against the Stoics and Epicureans, who agreed that God cannot be angry. Lactantius argues that a God who cannot be angry cannot love either, since the two are one faculty turned two ways — and quotes Epicurus's dilemma in full: is God willing to prevent evil but not able, or able but not willing.
2 of 1774 works