Principal Works*
Opera Hrotsvite (poetry, dramas, and history) 1501
Hrotsvithae Opera (poetry, dramas, and history) 1902
Hrotsvithae Opera (poetry, dramas, and history) 1970
*Hroswitha's major collected works include the following poems: "Maria", Historia ascensionis Domini ("Ascensio"), Passio Sancti Gongolfi martyris ("Gongolf'), Passio Sancti Pelagii ("Pelagius"), Lapsus et conversio Theophili Vicedomini ("Theopilus"), Conversio cujusdam juvenis desperati per S. Basilium episcopum ("Basilius"), Passio Sancti Dionysii ("Dionysius"), and Passio Sanctae Agnetis ("Agnes"); dramas: Passio sanctarum virginum Agapis Chioniae et Hirenae, Resuscitatio Drusianae et Calimachi, Lapsus et conversio Mariae neptis Habrahae heremicolae, Conversio Thaidis meretricis, and Passio sanctarum virginum Fidei Spei et Karitatis; and works of history in verse: Carmen de gestis Oddonis imperatoris and Primordia coenobii Gandeshemensis.
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