The evidence shelf

A. D. Godley (1920). Herodotus (Loeb Classical Library). Harvard University Press, 1920-1925.

The Loeb English carried in the Perseus encoding and in this library.

cited by 1 crossing

Alexander Pope (1715). The Iliad of Homer. London, 1715-1720.

Published by subscription; the financial model is part of the story.

cited by 1 crossing

Alexander Pope (1725). The Odyssey of Homer. London, 1725-1726.

With William Broome and Elijah Fenton as collaborators.

cited by 1 crossing

Benjamin Jowett (1871). The Dialogues of Plato. Oxford.

The translation through which anglophone readers met Plato for a century.

cited by 1 crossing

Georg Buhler (1886). The Laws of Manu (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 25). Oxford University Press.

The scholarly English Manusmriti of the nineteenth century.

cited by 1 crossing

George Chapman (1611). The Iliads of Homer. London.

Completion of the first full English Iliad, issued in parts from 1598.

cited by 1 crossing

George Chapman (1616). The Whole Works of Homer. London.

Collects his Odyssey of 1614-15 with the Iliad: the first complete English Homer.

cited by 1 crossing

Harris Rackham (1926). Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics (Loeb Classical Library). Harvard University Press.

The Loeb English carried in the Perseus encoding and in this library.

cited by 1 crossing

Henry Dale (1848). The History of Thucydides, literally translated. Bohn's Classical Library, London.

The Victorian crib-style translation carried in the Perseus First1KGreek encoding.

cited by 1 crossing

Hunayn ibn Ishaq (856). Risala on the Galen translations made by him and his school.

Hunayn's own catalogue of 129 Galenic titles, who translated each into Syriac or Arabic, for whom, and how reliably. The most detailed self-report any medieval translator left.

cited by 3 crossings

Ibn al-Nadim (987). Kitab al-Fihrist.

The Baghdad bookseller's catalogue of every book known to him, with translator attributions that anchor much of the Arabic side of this atlas.

cited by 3 crossings

Ibn Juljul (987). Tabaqat al-atibba wa-l-hukama.

Generations of the physicians, written in Cordoba. The primary source for both the Baghdad Dioscorides translation and the Byzantine gift manuscript episode, by a participant in the Cordoba revision circle.

cited by 2 crossings

John Dryden (1697). The Works of Virgil. London.

The Aeneid that ruled English for a century, sold by subscription.

cited by 1 crossing

Marsilio Ficino (1484). Platonis Opera Omnia, Latin translation. Florence.

The first complete Plato in any Western language since antiquity.

cited by 1 crossing

Paul Shorey (1930). Plato: The Republic (Loeb Classical Library). Harvard University Press, 1930-1935.

The Loeb English carried in the Perseus encoding and in this library.

cited by 1 crossing

Samuel Butler (1898). The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English prose. London.

The novelist's plain-prose Homer; the Perseus English Iliad derives from it.

cited by 1 crossing

Samuel Butler (1900). The Odyssey, rendered into English prose. London.

Companion to his Iliad; the Perseus English Odyssey derives from it.

cited by 1 crossing

Theodore C. Williams (1910). The Aeneid of Virgil. Boston.

The verse translation carried in the Perseus encoding and in this library.

cited by 1 crossing

Thomas Creech (1682). T. Lucretius Carus, his six books De natura rerum, done into English verse. Oxford.

The first complete English De Rerum Natura.

cited by 1 crossing

Thomas Hobbes (1629). Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre. London.

The first English Thucydides made directly from the Greek; Hobbes's preface calls him 'the most politic historiographer that ever writ'.

cited by 1 crossing

William Ellery Leonard (1916). Of the Nature of Things. London and New York.

The verse translation carried in the Perseus encoding and in this library.

cited by 1 crossing

William Jones (1794). Institutes of Hindu Law: or, the Ordinances of Menu. Calcutta.

The first complete English Manusmriti, made for the courts of British Bengal.

cited by 1 crossing

Anna A. Akasoy and Alexander Fidora (eds.), with D. M. Dunlop (2005). The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics. Brill.

Edition of the surviving Arabic Ethics with Dunlop's account of its disputed translator attributions.

cited by 1 crossing

Ben-Zaken, Avner (2011). Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism. Johns Hopkins University Press.

cited by 2 crossings

Burnett, Charles and Jacquart, Danielle (eds.) (1994). Constantine the African and Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Magusi: The Pantegni and Related Texts. Brill.

cited by 1 crossing

Busard, H. L. and Folkerts, M. (1992). Robert of Chester's (?) Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version. Birkhäuser.

cited by 1 crossing

de Blois, François (1990). Burzoy's Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalilah wa Dimnah. Royal Asiatic Society.

cited by 3 crossings

Garland Cannon (1990). The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones. Cambridge University Press.

Standard biography of William Jones.

cited by 1 crossing

Gutas, Dimitri (1998). Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society. Routledge.

The standard account of why and how the Abbasid translation movement happened. Also the corrective on the House of Wisdom legend.

cited by 1 crossing

Hasse, Dag Nikolaus (2010). Latin Averroes Translations of the First Half of the Thirteenth Century. Olms.

cited by 1 crossing

Hughes, Barnabas B. (1989). Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of al-Khwarizmi's al-Jabr: A New Critical Edition. Steiner Verlag.

cited by 1 crossing

James Hankins (1990). Plato in the Italian Renaissance. Brill.

The standard study of Ficino's Latin Plato and its readers.

cited by 1 crossing

James Schmidt (ed.) (1996). What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions. University of California Press.

Contains an English translation of Fichte's Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought.

cited by 1 crossing

Kunitzsch, Paul (1974). Der Almagest: Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemäus in arabisch-lateinischer Überlieferung. Harrassowitz.

cited by 2 crossings

Lamoreaux, John C. (ed. and tr.) (2016). Hunayn ibn Ishaq on His Galen Translations. Brigham Young University Press.

cited by 1 crossing

N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance. Duckworth.

Standard account of the recovery of Greek in the West, including Pilatus's Homer and Valla's Thucydides and Herodotus.

cited by 4 crossings

Olivelle, Patrick (1997). Pancatantra: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom. Oxford University Press.

Pormann, Peter E. and Savage-Smith, Emilie (2007). Medieval Islamic Medicine. Edinburgh University Press.

cited by 1 crossing

Russell, G. A. (ed.) (1994). The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England. Brill.

cited by 4 crossings

Siraisi, Nancy G. (1987). Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500. Princeton University Press.

cited by 3 crossings

Tannous, Jack (2018). The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers. Princeton University Press.

cited by 1 crossing

Taylor, Richard C. (tr.) (2009). Averroes: Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle. Yale University Press.

cited by 1 crossing

Bernard G. Dod (1982). Aristoteles latinus, in The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.

Reference list of the medieval Latin Aristotle, including Grosseteste's Ethics of 1246-47.

cited by 1 crossing

Bhayro, Siam et al. (2017). The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: A Tale of Two Texts. Journal of Semitic Studies / Project MUSE.

cited by 1 crossing

Burnett, Charles (1994). Michael Scot and the Transmission of Scientific Culture from Toledo to Bologna via the Court of Frederick II Hohenstaufen. Micrologus 2.

Burnett, Charles (2001). The Coherence of the Arabic-Latin Translation Program in Toledo in the Twelfth Century. Science in Context 14.

cited by 2 crossings

Mercier, Raymond (1987). Astronomical Tables in the Twelfth Century. In Burnett (ed.), Adelard of Bath: An English Scientist and Arabist of the Early Twelfth Century.

cited by 1 crossing

Minnema, Anthony H. (2014). Algazel Latinus: The Audience of the Summa theoricae philosophiae, 1150-1600. Traditio 69.

cited by 1 crossing

Overwien, Oliver (2015). The Paradigmatic Translator and His Method: Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 3.

cited by 1 crossing

Pingree, David (1970). The Fragments of the Works of al-Fazari. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 29.

cited by 1 crossing

Treiger, Alexander (2017). Reconstructing Ishaq ibn Hunayn's Arabic Translation of Aristotle's De Anima. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 27.

cited by 2 crossings

Zimmermann, F. W. (1986). The Origins of the So-Called Theology of Aristotle. In Kraye, Ryan and Schmitt (eds.), Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages.

cited by 1 crossing

Adamson, Peter (2025). The Theology of Aristotle. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu

cited by 2 crossings

Ben Ahmed, Fouad and Pasnau, Robert (2021). Ibn Rushd [Averroes]. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu

cited by 1 crossing

Burnett, Charles (2004). Ketton, Robert of (fl. 1141-1157). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

cited by 1 crossing

D'Ancona, Cristina (2022). Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu

cited by 1 crossing

David M. Hart (2026). The Digital Library of Liberty and Power (davidmhart.com). davidmhart.com.

Hart's open digital library of classical-liberal texts; the source of the French and German editions behind Thothica's translations of Comte, Dunoyer and Fichte.

cited by 2 crossings

Griffel, Frank (2025). al-Ghazali. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu

cited by 1 crossing

Gutas, Dimitri (2016). Ibn Sina [Avicenna]. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu

Hasse, Dag Nikolaus (2020). Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu

cited by 1 crossing

Hockey, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (entries: Fazari, Khwarizmi, Majriti, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar). Springer.

cited by 3 crossings

L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson (2013). Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford University Press, 4th ed..

The standard survey of how classical texts survived and were recovered, including Poggio's manuscript hunts.

Lemay, Richard (1978). Gerard of Cremona. Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 15 supplement.

Includes the Commemoratio librorum, the list of Gerard's translations drawn up by his students after his death in 1187.

cited by 3 crossings

Murdoch, John E. (1971). Euclid: Transmission of the Elements. Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 4.

cited by 8 crossings

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project (2023). Work entries for the Arabic and Latin Almagest translations. Bavarian Academy of Sciences. ptolemaeus.badw.de

cited by 4 crossings

Riedel, Dagmar (2010). Kalila wa Demna i. Redactions and Circulation. Encyclopaedia Iranica. iranicaonline.org

cited by 5 crossings

Strohmaier, Gotthard (1971). Hunayn b. Ishak al-Ibadi. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., Brill.

cited by 1 crossing

Thothica (2026). Falsafa: the library and librarian (falsafa.ai). falsafa.ai.

The library carrying the AI-assisted English translations whose crossings the newest chains record.

cited by 12 crossings

Toomer, G. J. (1973). al-Khwarizmi. Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

cited by 1 crossing