Prometheus Bound
The Titan chained to the rock for the gift of fire, and his prophecy of Zeus’s fall.
Works and Days
A farmer’s almanac woven with myth — the five ages of man and the labour each demands.
Theogony
The birth of the gods, from primordial Chaos to the throne of Zeus.
Pinakes
A catalogue of all who shone in learning, and what they wrote — the first true bibliography.
Argonautica
Jason, Medea, and the fleece — the last great epic of the Hellenistic world.
The Septuagint
Hebrew scripture rendered into Greek by seventy scholars working in seventy cells.
Geographica
The earth measured at noon by the shadow of a stick — within fifty miles of true.
Conics
Eight books on parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas — names this volume itself bestowed.
On the Sphere & Cylinder
Two volumes on volume — the surfaces and contents of figures, derived without modern calculus.
The Histories
An inquiry into the great deeds of Greeks and Persians, that they might not be forgotten.