Clement of Alexandria

Christian teacher in Alexandria who engaged Greek learning.

Fully prepared texts

Side by side with the original Greek where we have it, an older public-domain English translation, and a modern English version.

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) GreekOlder EnglishModern English 12 chapters
• The Instructor (Paedagogus) GreekOlder EnglishModern English

More writings in English

English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.

• Fragments Older English 1.9 h read
• The Stromata Book 1 Older English 2.8 h read
• The Stromata Book 2 Older English 2.1 h read
• The Stromata Book 4 Older English 2.2 h read
• The Stromata Book 5 Older English 2.1 h read
• The Stromata Book 6 Older English 2.5 h read
• The Stromata Book 7 Older English 2.2 h read
• The Stromata Book 8 Older English 39 min read
• Excerpts of Theodotus Older English 30 min read

Original-language texts

The Latin and Greek texts as edited and digitised by the Open Greek and Latin project (CC BY-SA 4.0): one column, with the standard references, and plain-text and TEI XML downloads for scholars. They have been corrected from print by machine and may still contain errors.

• Eclogae propheticae (Greek) Greek 23 min read
• Excerpta ex Theodoto (Greek) Greek 34 min read
• Quis dives salvetur (Greek) Greek 42 min read
• Protrepticus (Greek) Greek 1.8 h read
• Paedagogus (Greek) Greek 4.3 h read