10 Amusing Titles of Ancient Greek Treatises

In no particular order, for no particular reason

1. Galen, "On Exercise with a Small Ball" (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΜΙΚΡΑΣ ΣΦΑΙΡΑΣ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟΥ)
2. Dio Chrystosom, “Encomium on Hair” (ΚΟΜΗΣ ΕΓΚΩΜΙΟΝ)
3. Plutarch, “On Praising Oneself Inoffensively” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΕΑΥΤΟΝ ΕΠΑΙΝΕΙΝ ΑΝΕΠΙΦΘΟΝΩΣ)
4. Heraclides of Pontus, “On the Woman Not Breathing” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΠΝΟΥ)
5. Lucian, “On Salaried Posts in Great Houses” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΜΙΣΘΩΙ ΣΥΝΟΝΤΩΝ)
6. Philo, “On Mating with the Preliminary Studies” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΑΠΡΟΠΑΙΔΕΥΜΑΤΑ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΥ)
7. Theophrastus, “On Animals Reputed to be Spiteful” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΖΩΩΝ ΟΣΑ ΛΕΓΕΤΑΙ ΦΘΟΝΕΙΝ)
8. Lysias, “On the Refusal of a Pension to the Invalid” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΜΗ ΔΙΔΟΣΘΑΙ ΤΩΙ ΑΔΥΝΑΤΩΙ ΑΡΓΥΡΙΟΝ)
9. Cleanthes, “On the Thesis that Virtue is the Same in Man and Woman” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΟΤΙ Η ΑΥΤΗ ΑΡΕΤΗ ΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΟΣ)
10. Philodemus, “On the Good King according to Homer” (ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΘ’ ΟΜΗΡΟΝ ΑΓΑΘΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ)

Coming soon: A list of Latin treatises!