Chronology of wisdom literature in the Western tradition.
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Chronology. There has never been a history of wisdom, nor of the concept of wisdom. I have not yet been able to examine many of these works more than cursorily, much less integrate them into an adequate history, but there does not seem to be anything more adequate available.
sapientiae documenta, et in primis Graecam Latinamque linguas, sapientiae ipsius auream quasi vestem.
Ioannis PP. XXIII. 1962. Veterum Sapientia, §2.