3rd-century books

ancient Hindu text on erotic love

apocalyptic book, preserved in Latin as an appendix to the Vulgate; tripartite work consisting of 5 Ezra (a Christian work), 4 Ezra (a Jewish apocalypse), and 6 Ezra (predicts wars and rebukes sinners; perhaps Christian)

ancient Greek literary work

book by Diogenes Laërtius

The Enneads (; ), fully The Six Enneads, is the collection of writings of the philosopher Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (270). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas, and together they were founders of Neoplatonism. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought.

The Isagoge (, Eisagōgḗ; ) or "Introduction" to Aristotle's "Categories", written by Porphyry in Greek and translated into Latin by Boethius, was the standard textbook on logic for at least a millennium after his death. It was composed by Porphyry in Sicily during the years 268–270, and sent to Chrysaorium, according to all the ancient commentators Ammonius, Elias, and David. The work includes the highly influential hierarchical classification of genera and species from substance in general down to individuals, known as the Tree of Porphyry, and an introduction which mentions the problem of un

book; one of the Pseudepigrapha

gnostic text

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3rd century Chinese medical text, attributed to the legendary prehistoric culture hero Shennong

right|thumb|Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and [[Jacques Daléchamps' Latin translation]]

collection of 87 short religious poems composed in either the late Hellenistic or early Roman era

3rd-century gnostic gospel written by Mani

thumb|300px|Theagenes receiving the palm of honour from Chariclea by Abraham Bloemaert, 1626 ([[Mauritshuis)]] The Aethiopica (; , , 'Ethiopian Stories') or Theagenes and Chariclea (; , ) is an ancient Greek novel which has been dated to the 220s or 370s AD. It was written by Heliodorus of Emesa and is his only known work.

work by Philostratus

treatise by Origen

ancient Chinese medical masterpiece on colds and flu by Zhang Zhongjing (150 CE-219 CE) of Eastern Han Dynasty

work by Hippolytus of Rome

The Arzhang (/; ; , meaning "Worthy"), also known as the Book of Pictures, was one of the holy books of Manichaeism. It was written and illustrated by its prophet, Mani, in Syriac, with later reproductions written in Sogdian. It was unique as a sacred text in that it contained numerous pictures designed to portray Manichaean cosmogony, which were regarded as integral to the text.

Marsanes is a Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. The only surviving copy comes from the Nag Hammadi library, albeit with 14 pages completely missing and a large number of lines throughout the text damaged beyond recovery. Scholars speculate that the text was originally written by a Syrian in Greek during the third century. The content of the text focuses on the 13 seals, the Triple-Powered One, the shape and structure of the soul, acquiring power and knowledge, and an apocalyptic vision.

thumb|250px|page=9|The pages of a printed edition of Bowuzhi Bowuzhi () by Zhang Hua (c. 290 CE) was a compendium of Chinese stories about natural wonders and marvelous phenomena. It quotes from many early Chinese classics, and diversely includes subject matter from Chinese mythology, history, geography, and folklore. The Bowuzhi, which is one of the first works in the literary genre of zhiguai "tales of anomalies; supernatural stories", records the earliest versions of several myths, such as the white yenü "wild women" living south of China in a society without men. Scholars have described th

The Shabuhragan ( Shāpuragān), which means "dedicated to Šābuhr", also translated in Chinese as the was a sacred book of Manichaeism, written by the founder Mani (c. 210–276 CE) himself, originally in Middle Persian, and dedicated to Shapur I (c. 215272 CE), the contemporary king of the Sasanian Empire. This book is listed as one of the seven treatises of Manichaeism in Arabic historical sources, but it is not among the seven treatises in the Manichaean account itself. The book was designed to present to Shapur an outline of Mani's new religion, which united elements from Zoroastrianism, Chris

work by Porphyry

Religious text of Manichaeism

text by Pseudo-Apuleius