📚 Ancient Ethics

Books with ancient ethics on their catalogue record, first published between 1465 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient ethics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 616 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Nicomachean Ethics	Aristotle	1558	417
	Moralia	Plutarch	1500	211
	De officiis	Cicero	1465	129
	History of European morals	William Edward Hartpole Lecky	1869	102
	Λάχης	Plato	1868	65
	De finibus bonorum et malorum	Cicero	1471	55
	Epistulae morales	Seneca the Younger	1917	50
	Manual	Epictetus	1655	27
	Epiktētou Encheiridion	Epictetus	1554	18
	De beneficiis	Seneca the Younger	1554	13
	Plato	Adela Marion Adam	1913	9
	The virtuous life in Greek ethics	Burkhard Reis	2006	8
	Epicurus's morals	Epicurus	1656	7
	Ancient ethics	Susan Sauvé Meyer	2004	7
	Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius	May Sim	2007	6
	Ethics of the Stoic Epictetus	William O. Stephens	2021	5
	Untersuchungen zu Ciceros philosophischen Schriften	Rudolf Hirzel	1877	4
	The estimates of moral values expressed in Cicero's letters	Warren Stone Gordis	1905	4
	The morality of happiness	Julia Annas	1993	4
	Values and Virtues	Timothy Chappell	2006	4
	Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome	Rebecca Langlands	2018	4
	The ethics of Socrates	Miles Menander Dawson	1924	3
	The development of Plato's ethics	John Gould	1955	3
	Made for Happiness	Jean Vanier	2001	3
	The notion of that which depends on us in Plotinus and its background	Erik Eliasson	2005	3
	Plato's Symposium	Frisbee Sheffield	2006	3
	Aristotle's Method in Ethics	Joseph Karbowski	2018	3
	Aristoteles' Konzeption der Zurechnung	Béatrice Lienemann	2018	3
	Happiness and External Goods in Nicomachean Ethics	Sorin Sabou	2019	3
	Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium	Anna Marmodoro	2021	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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