Democritus - Works

Works

Ethics

Pythagoras
On the Disposition of the Wise Man
On the Things in Hades
Tritogenia
On Manliness or On Virtue
The Horn of Amaltheia
On Contentment
Ethical Commentaries

Natural science

The Great World-ordering (may have been written by Leucippus)
Cosmography
On the Planets
On Nature
On the Nature of Man or On Flesh (two books)
On the Mind
On the Senses
On Flavours
On Colours
On Different Shapes
On Changing Shape
Buttresses
On Images
On Logic (three books)

Nature

Heavenly Causes
Atmospheric Causes
Terrestrial Causes
Causes Concerned with Fire and Things in Fire
Causes Concerned with Sounds
Causes Concerned with Seeds and Plants and Fruits
Causes Concerned with Animals (three books)
Miscellaneous Causes
On Magnets

Mathematics

On Different Angles or On contact of Circles and Spheres
On Geometry
Geometry
Numbers
On Irrational Lines and Solids (two books)
Planispheres
On the Great Year or Astronomy (a calendar)
Contest of the Waterclock
Description of the Heavens
Geography
Description of the Poles
Description of Rays of Light

Literature

On the Rhythms and Harmony
On Poetry
On the Beauty of Verses
On Euphonious and Harsh-sounding Letters
On Homer
On Song
On Verbs
Names

Technical works

Prognosis
On Diet
Medical Judgment
Causes Concerning Appropriate and Inappropriate Occasions
On Farming
On Painting
Tactics
Fighting in Armor

Commentaries

On the Sacred Writings of Babylon
On Those in Meroe
Circumnavigation of the Ocean
On History
Chaldaean Account
Phrygian Account
On Fever and Coughing Sicknesses
Legal Causes
Problems

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