# Bibliotheca (Photius)

The Bibliotheca (Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη) or Myriobiblos (Μυριόβιβλος, "Ten Thousand Books") was a ninth-century work of Byzantine Patriarch of Constantinople Photius, dedicated to his brother and composed of 279 reviews of books which he had read.

## Overview

Bibliotheca was not meant to be used as a reference work, but was widely used as such in the 9th century, and is one of the first Byzantine works that could be called an encyclopedia. Reynolds and Wilson call it "a fascinating production, in which Photius shows himself the inventor of the book-review," and say its "280 sections... vary in length from a single sentence to several pages". The works he notes are mainly Christian and pagan authors from the 5th century BC to his own time in the 9th century AD. Almost half the books mentioned no longer survive. These would have disappeared in the Sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, in the final Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, or in the following centuries of Ottoman rule, during which wealth and literacy contracted dramatically in the subordinate Greek community.

## Possible Abbasid link

Some older scholarship had speculated that Bibliotheca might have been composed in Baghdad at the time of Photius' embassy to the Abbasid court, since many of the mentioned works are rarely cited during the period before Photius, i.e. the so-called Byzantine "Dark Ages" (c. 630–800), and since it was known that the Abbasids were interested in translating Greek science and philosophy. However, modern specialists of the period, such as Paul Lemerle, have pointed out that this cannot be the case, since Photius himself clearly states in his preface and postscript to the Bibliotheca that after he was chosen to take part in the embassy, he sent his brother a summary of the works he had read previously "since the time that I learned how to understand and evaluate literature," i.e. from his youth. A further difficulty with supposing that Bibliotheca was composed during rather than before the embassy, besides Photius' own explicit statement, is that the majority of the works in Bibliotheca are of Christian patristic theology, and most of the secular works are histories, grammars, and works of literature, particularly rhetoric, rather than works of philosophy or science, and the Abbasids showed no interest in having Greek history or Greek high literature like rhetoric translated, nor were they interested in translating Greek Christian works. Their interest in Greek texts was confined almost exclusively to science, philosophy and medicine. In fact, "there is almost no overlap (other than some Galen, Dioscorides, and Vindonius Anatolius) between the inventory of secular works in Photius's Bibliotheca and those works that were translated into Arabic" in the Abbasid period.

## Editions

* Editio princeps (in Greek): David Hoeschel, Augsburg, 1601. Modern critical edition by R. Henry.
* Wilson, Nigel Guy (2002). The Bibliotheca: a selection. Duckworth. ISBN 978-0-7156-2612-2.

## Contents

Source: Treadgold, Warren T. (1980). The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius. Dumbarton Oaks. pp. 117–168. ISBN 978-0-88402-090-5.
| N° | Author | Title | Religion | Cons. | CPG |
| 1 | Theodore of Mopsuestia | That the Book of St. Dionysius is Genuine | Christian | Lost | |
| 2 | Hadrian the monk | Introduction to the Scriptures | Christian | Extant | 6527 |
| 3 | Nonnosus | History | Christian | Lost | |
| 4 | Theodore of Mopsuestia | For Basil Against Eunomius | Christian | Lost | 3859 |
| 5 | Sophronius | For Basil Against Eunomius | Christian | Lost | |
| 6-7 | Gregory of Nyssa | For Basil Against Eunomius | Christian | Extant | 3135 |
| 8 | Origen | De Principiis | Christian | Extant | 1482 |
| 9 | Eusebius | Praeparatio Evangelica | Christian | Extant | 3486 |
| 10 | Eusebius | Demonstratio Evangelica | Christian | Extant | 3487 |
| 11 | Eusebius | Praeparatio Ecclesiastica | Christian | Lost | |
| 12 | Eusebius | Demonstratio Ecclesiastica | Christian | Lost | |
| 14 | Apollinarius | Against the Pagans | Christian | Lost | |
| 14 | Apollinarius | On Piety | Christian | Lost | |
| 14 | Apollinarius | On Truth | Christian | Lost | |
| 15 | Gelasius of Cyzicus | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Extant | 6034 |
| 16 | Various | Acts of the Third Council | Christian | Lost | |
| 17 | Various | Acts of the Fourth Council | Christian | Lost | |
| 18 | Various | Acts of the Fifth Council | Christian | Lost | |
| 19 | Various | Acts of the Sixth Council | Christian | Lost | |
| 20 | Various | Acts of the Seventh Council | Christian | Lost | |
| 21 | John Philoponus | On the Resurrection | Christian | Lost | 7272 |
| 22 | Theodosius the Monk | Against John Philoponus | Christian | Lost | |
| 23 | Conon of Tarsus | Against John Philoponus | Christian | Lost | 7283 |
| 23 | Eugenius of Seleucia | Against John Philoponus | Christian | Lost | 7283 |
| 23 | Themistius of Alexandria | Against John Philoponus | Pagan | Lost | 7283 |
| 24 | anonymous | Acts Disputed Before Patriarch John | Christian | Lost | |
| 25 | Proclus of Constantinople | On Death | Christian | Lost | |
| 25 | Proclus of Constantinople | On the Ascension | Christian | Extant | 4531-5 |
| 25 | Proclus of Constantinople | On Pentecost | Christian | Extant | 4536-8 |
| 26 | Synesius of Cyrene | On Providence | Christian | Extant | 5631 |
| 26 | Synesius of Cyrene | On Royalty | Christian | Extant | 5630 |
| 26 | Synesius of Cyrene | Letters | Christian | Extant | 5640 |
| 27 | Eusebius | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Extant | 3495 |
| 28 | Socrates | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Extant | 6028 |
| 29 | Evagrius Scholasticus | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Extant | 7500 |
| 30 | Sozomen | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Extant | 6030 |
| 31 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Extant | 6222 |
| 32 | Athanasius | Letters | Christian | Extant | 2123 |
| 33 | Justus of Tiberias | Chronicle of the Kings of the Jews | Jewish | Lost | |
| 34 | Julius Africanus | History | Christian | Lost | 1690 |
| 35 | Philip of Side | Christian History | Christian | Lost | 6026 |
| 36 | Cosmas Indicopleustes | Christian Topography | Christian | Extant | 7468 |
| 37 | anonymous | On Politics | Christian | Extant | |
| 38 | Theodore of Mopsuestia | Interpretation of the Creation | Christian | Lost | 3827 |
| 39 | Eusebius | Against Hierocles | Christian | Extant | 3485 |
| 40 | Philostorgius | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Lost | 6032 |
| 41 | John of Aegeae | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Lost | 7509 |
| 42 | Basil of Cilicia | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Lost | |
| 43 | John Philoponus | On the Hexaemeron | Christian | Extant | 7265 |
| 44 | Philostratus of Tyre | Life of Apollonius of Tyana | Pagan | Extant | |
| 45 | Andronicianus | Against the Eunomians | Christian | Lost | |
| 46 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Against Various Theses | Christian | Extant | 6215, 6219 |
| 46 | Eutherios of Tyana | Confutationes | Christian | Extant | 6147 |
| 46 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Eranistes seu Polymorphus | Christian | Extant | 6217 |
| 47 | Flavius Josephus | The Jewish War | Jewish | Extant | |
| 48 | Hippolytus of Rome | On the Universe | Christian | Extant | 1898 |
| 49 | Cyril of Alexandria | Against the Blasphemies of Nestorius | Christian | Extant | 5217 |
| 49 | Cyril of Alexandria | Dialogues on the Trinity | Christian | Extant | 5216 |
| 49 | Cyril of Alexandria | On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and in Truth | Christian | Extant | 5200 |
| 50 | Nicias the Monk | Against the Seven Chapters of Philoponus | Christian | Lost | |
| 50 | Nicias the Monk | Against the Impious Severus | Christian | Lost | |
| 50 | Nicias the Monk | Against the Pagans | Christian | Lost | |
| 51 | Hesychius of Constantinople | On the Brazen Serpent | Christian | Lost | |
| 52 | Various | Collection of Acts Against the Messalians | Christian | Lost | |
| 53 | Various | Collection of Acts Against Pelagius and Celestius | Christian | Lost | |
| 54 | Various | Collection of Acts Against Nestorius | Christian | Lost | |
| 55 | John Philoponus | Against the Council of Chalcedon | Christian | Lost | 7271 |
| 55 | John of Aegeae | Against the Council of Chalcedon | Christian | Lost | |
| 56 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Against Heresies | Christian | Extant | 6223 |
| 57 | Appian | Roman History | Pagan | Extant | |
| 58 | Arrian | Parthica | Pagan | Lost | |
| 59 | Various | Acts of the Synod of the Oak | Christian | Lost | |
| 60 | Herodotus | History | Pagan | Extant | |
| 61 | Aeschines | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 62 | Praxagoras of Athens | History of Constantine | Pagan | Lost | |
| 63 | Procopius of Caesarea | History of the Wars | Christian | Extant | |
| 64 | Theophanes of Byzantium | History | Christian | Lost | |
| 65 | Theophylact Simocatta | Histories | Christian | Extant | |
| 66 | Nicephorus | Breviarium | Christian | Lost | |
| 67 | Sergius the Confessor | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Lost | |
| 68 | Cephalion | Muses | Pagan | Lost | |
| 69 | Hesychius of Miletus | Roman and General History | Christian | Lost | |
| 69 | Hesychius of Miletus | History of Justin and Justinian | Christian | Lost | |
| 70 | Diodorus Siculus | Library of History | Pagan | Extant | |
| 71 | Cassius Dio | Roman History | Pagan | Extant | |
| 72 | Ctesias | Persica | Pagan | Lost | |
| 72 | Ctesias | Indica | Pagan | Lost | |
| 73 | Heliodorus | Aethiopica | Pagan | Extant | |
| 74 | Themistius | Political Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 74 | Lesbonax | Political Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 75 | John Philoponus | Against John Scholasticus | Christian | Lost | 7268 |
| 76 | Flavius Josephus | Antiquities of the Jews | Jewish | Extant | |
| 76 | Flavius Josephus | Autobiography | Jewish | Extant | |
| 77 | Eunapius | Chronicle | Pagan | Lost | |
| 78 | Malchus | Byzantine History | Pagan | Lost | |
| 79 | Candidus | History | Christian | Lost | |
| 80 | Olympiodorus | History | Pagan | Lost | |
| 81 | Theodore of Mopsuestia | On Persian Magic | Christian | Lost | 3861 |
| 82 | Dexippus | After Alexander | Pagan | Lost | |
| 82 | Dexippus | Short History | Pagan | Lost | |
| 82 | Dexippus | Scythica | Pagan | Lost | |
| 83 | Dionysius of Halicarnassus | Roman Antiquities | Pagan | Extant | |
| 84 | Dionysius of Halicarnassus | Synopsis | Pagan | Extant | |
| 85 | Heraclian of Chalcedon | Against the Manichaeans | Christian | Lost | 6801 |
| 86 | John Chrysostom | Letters | Christian | Extant | 4402-3. 4405 |
| 87 | Achilles Tatius | Leucippe and Clitophon | Pagan | Extant | |
| 88 | Gelasius of Cyzicus | Ecclesiastical History | Christian | Extant | 6034 |
| 89 | Gelasius of Caesarea | Continuation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius | Christian | Lost | 3521 |
| 90 | Libanius | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 91 | Arrian | The Anabasis of Alexander | Pagan | Extant | |
| 91 | Arrian | Indica | Pagan | Extant | |
| 92 | Arrian | After Alexander | Pagan | Lost | |
| 93 | Arrian | Bithynica | Pagan | Lost | |
| 94 | Iamblichus | Babyloniaca | Pagan | Lost | |
| 95 | John Scythopolita | Against Those Separated from the Church | Christian | Lost | |
| 96 | George of Alexandria | On Chrysostom | Christian | Extant | 7979 |
| 97 | Phlegon of Tralles | Compilation of Olympic Victors and Chronicles | Pagan | Lost | |
| 98 | Zosimus | New History | Pagan | Extant | |
| 99 | Herodian | History | Pagan | Extant | |
| 100 | The Emperor Hadrian | Rhetorical Exercises | Pagan | Lost | |
| 101 | Victorinus of Antioch | Orations | Christian | Lost | |
| 102 | Gelasius of Caesarea | Against the Anomoeans | Christian | Lost | 3520 |
| 103 | Philo Judaeus | Legum Allegoriae | Jewish | Extant | |
| 103 | Philo Judaeus | De Josepho | Jewish | Extant | |
| 104 | Philo Judaeus | De Judaeis | Jewish | Lost | |
| 104 | Philo Judaeus | De Vita Contemplativa | Jewish | Extant | |
| 105 | Philo Judaeus | Against Flaccus | Jewish | Extant | |
| 105 | Philo Judaeus | Against Gaius | Jewish | Extant | |
| 106 | Theognostus of Alexandria | Hypotyposes | Christian | Lost | 1626 |
| 107 | Basil of Cilicia | Against John Scythopolita | Christian | Lost | |
| 108 | Theodore of Alexandria | Against Themistius | Christian | Lost | 7295 |
| 109 | Clement of Alexandria | Hypotyposes | Christian | Lost | 1380 |
| 110 | Clement of Alexandria | Paedagogus | Christian | Extant | 1376 |
| 110 | Clement of Alexandria | Protrepticus | Christian | Extant | 1375 |
| 111 | Clement of Alexandria | Stromata | Christian | Extant | 1377 |
| 111 | Clement of Alexandria | Quis Dives Salvetur? | Christian | Extant | 1379 |
| 112-3 | Clement of Rome | Apostolic Constitutions and Recognitions | Christian | Extant | 1730 |
| 114 | Leucius Charinus | Acts of St. Peter | Christian | Extant | |
| 114 | Leucius Charinus | Acts of St. John | Christian | Extant | |
| 114 | Leucius Charinus | Acts of St. Andrew | Christian | Extant | |
| 114 | Leucius Charinus | Acts of St. Thomas | Christian | Extant | |
| 114 | Leucius Charinus | Acts of St. Paul | Christian | Extant | |
| 115 | anonymous | Against the Quartodecimans | Christian | Lost | |
| 115 | Metrodorus | Computation of Easter | Christian | Lost | |
| 116 | anonymous | On Easter | Christian | Lost | |
| 117 | anonymous | For Origen | Christian | Lost | |
| 118 | Pamphilus of Caesarea | For Origen | Christian | Extant | 1715 |
| 118 | Eusebius | For Origen | Christian | Lost | 3476 |
| 119 | Pierius | Sermons | Christian | Lost | |
| 120 | Irenaeus | Against Heresies | Christian | Extant | 1306 |
| 121 | Hippolytus of Rome | Against Heresies | Christian | Extant | 1897 |
| 122 | Epiphanius | Panarion | Christian | Extant | 3745 |
| 123 | Epiphanius | Ancoratus | Christian | Extant | 3744 |
| 124 | Epiphanius | On Weights and Measures | Christian | Extant | 3746 |
| 125 | Justin Martyr | Apology | Christian | Extant | 1073 |
| 125 | Justin Martyr | Dialogue with Trypho | Christian | Extant | 1076, 1084 |
| 126 | Clement of Rome | Letters to the Corinthians | Christian | Extant | 1001, 1003 |
| 126 | Polycarp | Letter to the Philippians | Christian | Extant | 1040 |
| 127 | Eusebius | Life of Constantine | Christian | Extant | 3496 |
| 128 | Lucian | Dialogues | Pagan | Extant | |
| 129 | Lucius of Patrae | Metamorphoses | Pagan | Lost | |
| 130 | Damascius | On Marvelous Deeds | Pagan | Lost | |
| 130 | Damascius | Marvelous Tales of the Gods | Pagan | Lost | |
| 130 | Damascius | Marvelous Tales of Souls Appearing After Death | Pagan | Lost | |
| 130 | Damascius | Marvelous Animals | Pagan | Lost | |
| 131 | Amyntianus | On Alexander | Pagan | Lost | |
| 132 | Palladius of Methone | Rhetorical Exercises | Pagan | Lost | |
| 133 | Aphthonius of Antioch | Rhetorical Exercises | Pagan | Lost | |
| 134 | Eusebius of Emesa | Rhetorical Exercises | Christian | Lost | |
| 135 | Maximus | Rhetorical Exercises | Christian | Lost | |
| 136 | Cyril of Alexandria | Thesaurus | Christian | Extant | 5215 |
| 137 | Eunomius of Cyzicus | Apologeticus | Christian | Extant | 3455 |
| 138 | Eunomius of Cyzicus | Apologia Pro Apologia | Christian | Lost | 3456 |
| 138 | Eunomius of Cyzicus | Letters | Christian | Lost | 3456 |
| 139 | Athanasius | Commentary on Ecclesiastes | Christian | Lost | 2141 |
| 139 | Athanasius | Commentary on the Song of Songs | Christian | Lost | 2141 |
| 140 | Athanasius | Orations Against the Arians | Christian | Extant | 2093 |
| 141 | Basil of Caesarea | On the Hexameron | Christian | Extant | 2835 |
| 142 | Basil of Caesarea | Moralia | Christian | Extant | 2877 |
| 143 | Basil of Caesarea | Letters | Christian | Extant | 2900 |
| 144 | Basil of Caesarea | Ascetica | Christian | Extant | 2876 or 2875 |
| 145-8 | Helladius | Usage of All Sorts of Style | Pagan | Lost | |
| 149 | Valerius Pollio | Lexicon | Pagan | Lost | |
| 149 | Diogenianus of Heraclea | Lexicon | Pagan | Lost | |
| 150 | Julian | Lexicon of Words in the Ten Orators | Pagan | Lost | |
| 150 | Philostratus | Questions in the Orators | Pagan | Lost | |
| 150 | Valerius Diodorus | Explanation of Questions in the Ten Orators | Pagan | Lost | |
| 151 | Timaeus | On Terms in Plato | Pagan | Extant | |
| 152 | Aelius Dionysius | Attic Words | Pagan | Lost | |
| 153 | Pausanias | Lexicon | Pagan | Lost | |
| 154 | Boethus | Collection of Platonic Terms | Pagan | Lost | |
| 155 | Boethus | On Difficult Words in Plato | Pagan | Lost | |
| 156 | Dorotheus of Ascalon | On Foreign Words | Pagan | Lost | |
| 157 | Aelius Moeris | Atticist | Pagan | Extant | |
| 158 | Phrynichus the Arabian | Sophistic Preparations | Pagan | Lost | |
| 159 | Isocrates | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 159 | Isocrates | Letters | Pagan | Extant | |
| 160 | Choricius of Gaza | Orations | Christian | Extant | 7518 |
| 161 | Sopater of Apamea | Various Extracts | Pagan | Lost | |
| 162 | Eusebius of Thessalonica | Against Andrew | Christian | Lost | |
| 163 | Vindonius Anatolius | A Collection of Agricultural Precepts | Pagan | Lost | |
| 164 | Galen | On Medical Schools | Pagan | Extant | |
| 165 | Himerius | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 166 | Antonius Diogenes | The Wonders Beyond Thule | Pagan | Lost | 2877 |
| 167 | Joannes Stobaeus | Anthology | Pagan | Extant | 2900 |
| 168 | Basil of Seleucia | Sermons | Christian | Extant | 6656 |
| 169 | Cyril of Alexandria | Against the Blasphemies of Nestorius | Christian | Extant | 5217 |
| 169 | Cyril of Alexandria | Letters | Christian | Extant | 5304, 5669, 5317, 5301-5411 |
| 169 | Cyril of Alexandria | Scholia on the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten | Christian | Extant | 5225 |
| 170 | anonymous | Testimonies and Citations | Christian | Lost | |
| 171 | Eustratios of Constantinople | Refutation | Christian | Extant | 7522 |
| 172-4 | John Chrysostom | Sermons | Christian | Extant | 4409, 4426, 4427-40, 4413 |
| 175 | Pamphile of Epidaurus | Miscellaneous Historical Notes | Pagan | Lost | |
| 176 | Theopompus | Philippica | Pagan | Lost | |
| 177 | Theodore of Mopsuestia | Against the Defenders of Original Sin | Christian | Lost | 3860 |
| 178 | Dioscorides | Materia Medica | Pagan | Extant | |
| 178 | Dioscorides | On Harmful Medicines | Pagan | Extant | |
| 178 | Dioscorides | On Venomous Animals | Pagan | Extant | |
| 179 | Agapius | Manichaean pamphlets | Manichaean | Lost | |
| 180 | John the Lydian | On Prodigies | Christian | Extant | |
| 180 | John the Lydian | On the Months | Christian | Extant | |
| 180 | John the Lydian | On the Public Magistracies | Christian | Extant | |
| 181 | Damascius | Life of Isidore | Pagan | Lost | |
| 182 | Eulogius of Alexandria | On Dispensation | Christian | Lost | 6976 |
| 182 | Eulogius of Alexandria | Against Novatus | Christian | Lost | 6976 |
| 183 | Eudocia Augusta | Paraphrase of the Octateuch | Christian | Lost | 6022 |
| 184 | Eudocia Augusta | Paraphrase of Zechariah and Daniel | Christian | Lost | 6023 |
| 184 | Eudocia Augusta | On Cyprian the Martyr | Christian | Lost | 6024 |
| 185 | Dionysius of Aegeae | Dictyaca | Pagan | Lost | |
| 186 | Conon | Narrations | Pagan | Lost | |
| 186 | Apollodorus | Epitome of Bibliotheca | Pagan | Extant | |
| 187 | Nicomachus of Gerasa | Arithmetical Theology | Pagan | Lost | |
| 188 | Alexander of Myndus | Collection of Wonders | Pagan | Lost | |
| 188 | Protagoras | Geography of the World | Pagan | Lost | |
| 189 | Sotion | Strange Stories | Pagan | Lost | |
| 189 | Nicolas of Damascus | Collection of Customs | Jewish | Lost | |
| 189 | Acestorides | Myths of the Town | Pagan | Lost | |
| 190 | Ptolemaeus Chennus | New History for Erudition | Pagan | Lost | |
| 191 | Basil of Caesarea | Ascetica | Christian | Extant | 2875 |
| 192A | Maximus the Confessor | Questions to Thalassios | Christian | Extant | 7688 |
| 192B | Maximus the Confessor | Letters | Christian | Extant | 7699 |
| 193 | Maximus the Confessor | Liber Asceticus | Christian | Extant | 7692 |
| 193 | Maximus the Confessor | De Caritate | Christian | Extant | 7693 |
| 194 | Maximus the Confessor | Letters | Christian | Extant | 7699, 7700, 7705 |
| 194 | Maximus the Confessor | Capita Gnostica | Christian | Extant | 7694 |
| 195 | Maximus the Confessor | Letter to Marinus | Christian | Extant | 7697 |
| 195 | Maximus the Confessor | Disputation with Pyrrhus | Christian | Extant | 7698 |
| 196 | Ephrem of Nisibis | Sermons | Christian | Extant | 3905, 3906, 3933, 3936, 3942 |
| 197 | John Cassian | Institutes | Christian | Extant | |
| 197 | John Cassian | Epitome of Conferences | Christian | Extant | |
| 198 | anonymous | Apophthegmata Patrum | Christian | Extant | 5560-74 |
| 199 | John Moschos | Spiritual Meadow | Christian | Extant | 7376 |
| 200 | Mark the Monk | On the Spiritual Law | Christian | Extant | 6090 |
| 200 | Mark the Monk | Against the Melchisidecians | Christian | Extant | 6100 |
| 201 | Diadochus of Photicia | Capita Gnostica | Christian | Extant | 6106 |
| 201 | Evagrius Ponticus | On Prayer | Christian | Extant | 2452 |
| 201 | John of Karpathos | Exhortation to the Monks Returned from India | Christian | Extant | 7855 |
| 202 | Hippolytus of Rome | Commentary on Daniel | Christian | Extant | 1872 |
| 202 | Hippolytus of Rome | On Antichrist | Christian | Extant | 1873 |
| 203 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Commentary on Daniel | Christian | Extant | 6027 |
| 204 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Questions on the Octateuch | Christian | Extant | 6200 |
| 204 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Questions on Kings and Chronicles | Christian | Extant | 6201 |
| 205 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets | Christian | Extant | 6208 |
| 206 | Procopius of Gaza | On the Octateuch | Christian | Extant | 7430 |
| 206 | Procopius of Gaza | On Kings | Christian | Extant | 7430 |
| 206 | Procopius of Gaza | On Chronicles | Christian | Extant | 7430 |
| 207 | Procopius of Gaza | On Isaiah | Christian | Extant | 7434 |
| 208 | Eulogius of Alexandria | Against Novatus | Christian | Lost | 6976 |
| 209 | Dion of Prusa | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 210 | Caesarius of Nazianzen | Dialogues | Christian | Extant | 7482 |
| 211 | Dionysius of Aegeae | Dictyaca | Pagan | Lost | |
| 212 | Aenesidemus | Pyrrhonian writings | Pagan | Lost | |
| 213 | Agatharchides of Cnidus | On the Red Sea | Pagan | Lost | |
| 214 | Hierocles | On Providence and Fate | Pagan | Lost | |
| 215 | John Philoponos | Against Iamblichus on Statues | Christian | Lost | |
| 216 | Oribasius | Excerpts from Galen | Pagan | Lost | |
| 217 | Oribasius | Collectiones Medicae | Pagan | Extant | |
| 218 | Oribasius | Synopsis ad Eustathium | Pagan | Extant | |
| 219 | Oribasius | Ad Eunapium | Pagan | Extant | |
| 219 | Oribasius | Euporista | Pagan | Extant | |
| 220 | Theon of Alexandria | The Man | Pagan | Lost | |
| 221 | Aetius of Amida | Medical Work | Christian | Extant | |
| 222 | Job the Monk | On the incarnation | Christian | Lost | 6984 |
| 223 | Diodorus of Tarsus | Against Fate | Christian | Lost | 3821 |
| 224 | Memnon of Heraclea | History of Heraclea | Pagan | Lost | |
| 225-6 | Eulogius of Alexandria | Against Theodosius and Severus | Christian | Lost | 6976 |
| 227 | Eulogois of Alexandria | Against the Theodosians and Gaianites | Christian | Lost | 6976 |
| 228 | Ephrem of Amida | Letters | Christian | Lost | 6908 |
| 228 | Ephrem of Amida | Festal Sermons | Christian | Lost | 6908 |
| 229 | Ephrem of Amida | Treatises | Christian | Lost | 6908 |
| 230 | Eulogius of Alexandria | Various treatises | Christian | Lost | 6976 |
| 231 | Sophronius of Jerusalem | Synodal Letter | Christian | Extant | 7635 |
| 232 | Stephen Gobar | Florilegium | Christian | Lost | 7300 |
| 233 | Germanus of Constantinople | On the true and legitimate retribution | Christian | Lost | 8022 |
| 234 | Methodius of Olympus | On the Resurrection | Christian | Extant | 1812 |
| 235 | Methodius of Olympus | On Creatures | Christian | Lost | 1817 |
| 236 | Methodius of Olympus | On Free Will | Christian | Extant | 1811 |
| 237 | Methodius of Olympus | Symposium | Christian | Extant | 1810 |
| 238 | Flavius Josephus | Antiquities of the Jews | Jewish | Extant | |
| 239 | Proclus | Manual of Literature | Pagan | Lost | |
| 240 | John Philoponus | On the Hexameron | Christian | Extant | 7265 |
| 241 | Philostratus of Tyre | Life of Apollonius of Tyana | Pagan | Extant | |
| 242 | Damascius | Life of Isidore | Pagan | Lost | |
| 243 | Himerius | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 244 | Diodorus Siculus | Library of History | Pagan | Extant | |
| 245 | Plutarch of Chaeronea | Parallel Lives | Pagan | Extant | |
| 246 | Aelius Aristides | Panathenaicus | Pagan | Extant | |
| 247-8 | Aelius Aristides | For Rhetoric against Plato | Pagan | Extant | |
| 249 | anonymous | Life of Pythagoras | Pagan | Lost | |
| 250 | Agatharchides of Cnidus | On the Red Sea | Pagan | Lost | |
| 251 | Hierocles | On Providence and Fate | Pagan | Lost | |
| 252 | anonymous | Life of St. Gregory the Great | Christian | Lost | |
| 253 | anonymous | Martyrology of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus | Christian | Extant | |
| 254 | anonymous | Martyrology of St. Timothy | Christian | Extant | |
| 255 | anonymous | Martyrology of St. Demetrius | Christian | Lost | |
| 256 | anonymous | Life of SS. Metrophanes and Alexander | Christian | Extant | |
| 257 | anonymous | Life of St. Paul of Constantinople | Christian | Extant | |
| 258 | anonymous | Life of St. Athanasius | Christian | Lost | |
| 259 | Antiphon | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 260 | Isocrates | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 261 | Andocidus | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 262 | Lysias | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 263 | Isaeus | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 264 | Aeschines | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 264 | Aeschines | Letters | Pagan | Extant | |
| 265 | Demosthenes | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 266 | Hyperidus | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 267 | Dinarchus | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 268 | Lycurgus | Orations | Pagan | Extant | |
| 269 | Hesychius of Jerusalem | Eulogy of St. Andrew | Christian | Extant | 6571 |
| 270 | John Chrysostom | On St. Paul | Christian | Lost | |
| 271 | Asterius of Amaseus | Sermons | Christian | Extant | 3260-1 |
| 272 | Leontius of Arabissos | On the Creation and On Lazarus | Christian | Lost | |
| 273 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus | On St. John Chrysostom | Christian | Lost | 6225 |
| 274 | John Chrysostom | On the Forty Holy Martyrs | Christian | Lost | |
| 274 | John Chrysostom | On the Beheading of St. John the Baptist | Christian | Lost | |
| 275 | Hesychius of Jerusalem | On St. James and David | Christian | Lost | 6574 |
| 275 | Modestus of Jerusalem | Sermons | Christian | Extant | 7872, 7876, 7873 |
| 276 | Nilus of Ancyra | On Easter | Christian | Lost | 6078 |
| 276 | Proclus of Constantinople | On the Ascension | Christian | Extant | 6078 |
| 277 | John Chrysostom | Sermons | Christian | Extant | 4429, 4328, 4329, 4333, 4508, 4576, 4701, 4329, 4620 |
| 277 | Severian of Gabala | Sermons | Christian | Extant | 4188, 4204, 4200 |
| 278 | Theophrastus of Eresos | Extracts of various treatises | Pagan | Lost | |
| 279 | Helladius of Antinoöpolis | Chrestomathy | Pagan | Lost | |
| 279 | Hermias of Hermopolis | Fatherland of Hermopolis and Other Poems | Pagan | Lost | |
| 279 | Aelius Serenus | Plays | Pagan | Lost | |
| 279 | Andronicus of Hermopolis | To Count Phoebammon | Pagan | Lost | |
| 279 | Horapollo | On Alexandria | Pagan | Lost | |
| 279 | Cyrus of Panopolis | To Duke Maurice | Pagan | Lost | |
| 280 | Eulogius of Alexandria | On Dispensation | Christian | Lost | 6976 |
| 280 | Eulogius of Alexandria | Against Novatus | Christian | Lost | 6976 |