The Library

Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 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.

1 of 1780 works

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

c. 386

Greek

For the Temples

Oration XXX

Libanius · c. 314 – c. 393

An appeal to Theodosius against the monks pulling down temples in the countryside — men in black, he says, who eat more than elephants and claim to be at war with stones. The temples are imperial property, the farmers have nothing else, and no law has authorised any of it.

Greco-Roman · OrationActs Deuteronomy 2 KingsRead elsewhere