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Plato's dialogue Gorgias (c. 380 BC) in which Socrates debates with Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles about the nature of rhetoric, power, justice, and the good life. A harsh criticism of the Sophists and their oratory as flattery rather than knowledge.
The Art of Memory (1966), one of the most significant works of intellectual history, explores the history of mnemonics from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to its influence on the science and culture of Europe.
Metaphysics is Aristotle's most famous and influential philosophical work, consisting of 14 books. The name Metaphysics is not Aristotle's – it came later because the writings were placed "behind physics" (meta ta physika).