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Works across time.

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Classics Library timelineWorks plotted horizontally by year and grouped in rows by era, with selectable idea clusters.1000 BCE750 BCE500 BCE250 BCE0250500750100012501500175020002250Ancient58 worksMedieval23 worksRenaissance Early Modern27 works18th Century25 works19th Century79 worksEarly 20th Century33 worksPostwar Contemporary30 worksComputing11 worksThe BibleThe IliadThe OdysseyFragmentsThe Art of WarThe OresteiaMedea and Other PlaysThe History of the Peloponnesian WarThe HistoriesThe Theban PlaysLysistrata and Other PlaysThe Bacchae and Other PlaysHippocratic WritingsThe Last Days of SocratesThe SymposiumThe RepublicPhaedrus and Letters VII and VIIIThe Persian ExpeditionTimaeusDe AnimaPoliticsThe Nicomachean EthicsCharactersThe Bhagavad GitaThe ArthashastraOn the Nature of the UniverseThe Conquest of GaulThe Civil WarThe Satires of Horace and PersiusThe AeneidMetamorphosesOn MedicineDe Materia MedicaLetters from a StoicThe Jewish WarNatural History: A SelectionJewish AntiquitiesThe Agricola and the GermaniaEarly Christian Writings: The Apostolic FathersEssaysThe Age of Alexander: Nine Greek LivesThe Fall of the Roman Republic: Six LivesThe Annals of Imperial RomeThe Twelve CaesarsMeditationsThe Golden AssGalen: Selected WorksEnneadsThe Early Christian CreedsThe History of the ChurchEarly Christian LivesOn the Making of ManHomilies on the StatuesConfessionsLife of St. MartinHomilies on the Gospel of JohnCity of GodSt. Patrick's WritingsThe Consolation of PhilosophyThe Rule of St BenedictThe KoranTwo Lives of CharlemagneBeowulfThe Song of RolandSermons on the Song of SongsSt. Thomas Becket and the Canterbury MiraclesThe Lais of Marie de FranceThe NibelungenliedEarly Franciscan SourcesSt. Dymphna and the Geel ColonyThe Journey of the Mind into GodSts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician SaintsThe Golden Legend: Popular SaintsDe RegnoSumma TheologicaThe Divine ComedySt. Vitus and the Dancing ManiaTroilus and CriseydeSir Gawain and the Green KnightThe Trial of Joan of ArcSts. Roch and Sebastian: Plague SaintsThe PrinceSelected Sermons and Reformation TreatisesThe Art of WarSelected SermonsSelected SermonsEssaysOn FriendshipA Midsummer Night's DreamEssaysTwelfth NightDon QuixoteKing LearMacbethNovum OrganumThe Anatomy of MelancholySermons and Devotions upon Emergent OccasionsThe Metaphysical PoetsDiscourse on MethodMeditations on First PhilosophyThe Passions of the SoulLeviathanThe Misanthrope and Other PlaysPenseesEthicsPrincipiaAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingSecond Treatise of GovernmentLogical Writings on Binary Arithmetic and Universal CharacterPersian LettersGulliver's TravelsA Modest ProposalAutobiography and Poor Richard's AlmanackA Treatise of Human NatureSelected SermonsSinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Faithful NarrativeSermons on Several Occasions and Primitive PhysickInstructions for His GeneralsAn Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingCandide: Or OptimismThe Social ContractCommon Sense, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, and The American CrisisThe Founding DocumentsThoughts on Government and Selected LettersDialogues Concerning Natural ReligionCritique of Pure ReasonConfessionsGroundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsMemorial and Remonstrance and Notes of Debates in the Federal ConventionNotes on the State of Virginia, Selected Letters, and The Jefferson BibleEarly Black Church Sermons and AddressesThe Anti-Federalist PapersThe Federalist PapersA Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in PhiladelphiaFarewell Address and Selected LettersA Treatise on InsanityLetters of NapoleonSense and SensibilityMedical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the MindDescription of the RetreatPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkNorthanger AbbeyPersuasionFrankensteinThe World as Will and RepresentationThe VampyreNapoleon's Maxims of WarOn WarDemocracy in AmericaLectures on Revivals of ReligionMental MaladiesThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketThe Voyage of the BeagleA Christmas CarolFear and TremblingNotes on Menabrea's Sketch of the Analytical EngineThe Count of Monte CristoMental Pathology and TherapeuticsNarrative of the Life and What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Wuthering HeightsThe Communist ManifestoWhite NightsDavid CopperfieldThe Sickness Unto DeathThe Scarlet LetterEssays and Aphorisms12 Years a SlaveRuthAn Investigation of the Laws of ThoughtSelected SermonsThe Complete PoemsThe WardenOn LibertyOn the Origin of SpeciesUtilitarianismFathers and SonsPassages from the Life of a PhilosopherCrime and PunishmentLittle WomenBody and MindSelected SermonsThe Descent of ManLectures on the Diseases of the Nervous SystemThe Birth of TragedyThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsMemoirsThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Meek OneBlack BeautyDaisy MillerA Doll's House and Other PlaysThe Brothers KaramazovWashington SquareThe Portrait of a LadySelected Short StoriesThe Gay ScienceThus Spoke ZarathustraTreasure IslandPersonal MemoirsBeyond Good and EvilPsychopathia SexualisThe Death of Ivan IlyichOn the Genealogy of MoralityEcce HomoThe AntichristTwilight of the IdolsThe Principles of PsychologyBilly Budd and Other StoriesEffi BriestStudies on HysteriaDraculaThe Turn of the Screw and The Aspern PapersHeart of DarknessThe Interpretation of DreamsThe River WarLord JimThe Varieties of Religious ExperienceLectures on Clinical PsychiatryThe Major Symptoms of HysteriaThe Psychology of Dementia PraecoxDementia Praecox or the Group of SchizophreniasThe Secret GardenKokoroThe UnderdogsMy ÁntoniaPoemsSiddhartha: An Indian TaleTwenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairWeComplete PoemsSeven Pillars of WisdomDeath Comes for the ArchbishopThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird StoriesPassingCivilization and Its DiscontentsOn Formally Undecidable PropositionsThe WavesCold Comfort FarmTestament of YouthBUtterfield 8On Computable Numbers and Computing MachineryOf Mice and MenThe Cost of DiscipleshipOur TownThe Power and the GloryChessA Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous ActivityLetters and Papers from PrisonThe Portable Dorothy ParkerAs We May ThinkCannery RowFirst Draft of a Report on the EDVACThe Portable FaulknerAlone in BerlinOn Fairy-StoriesA Mathematical Theory of CommunicationCyberneticsDeath of a SalesmanEast of EdenExcellent WomenThe Old Man and the SeaTwelve Angry MenA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other StoriesA View from the BridgeThe Quiet AmericanOn the RoadA Burnt-Out CaseWe Hold These TruthsSermons and Letter from Birmingham JailI Am Prepared to DieDignitatis HumanaeThe Master and MargaritaTravels with My AuntHumboldt's GiftDestruction and Creation and the OODA Loop BriefingsCeremonyIn PatagoniaSixty StoriesThe New York TrilogyCentesimus AnnusLong Walk to FreedomEvangelium VitaeFides et RatioThe Art of the CommonplaceRegensburg Lecture

Melancholia

89 works on the timeline

Low spirits, acedia, depressive states, grief-shadowed philosophy, and later medicalized melancholy.

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Plague / Fever

77 works on the timeline

Epidemics, contagion, fever, public fear, and social diagnosis through illness.

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Physicians

107 works on the timeline

Doctors, surgeons, apothecaries, healers, and medicine as moral authority or satire.

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Opium

16 works on the timeline

Opium, laudanum, morphine, sleep, dependence, pain relief, and altered states.

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War Trauma

73 works on the timeline

War wounds, field medicine, shell shock, trauma before PTSD, and moral injury.

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Faith / Sermons

130 works on the timeline

Religion, preaching, illness of body and soul, consolation, sin, despair, and care.

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