Philosophy, Ancient
Here are entered works dealing with ancient philosophy in general and with Greek and Roman philosophy in particular.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800
- Philosophy, Ancient -- Egyptian influences
- Philosophy, Ancient -- Oriental influences
- Philosophy, Ancient -- Periodicals
- Philosophy, Ancient -- Poetry
- Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
- Manichaeism
- Neoplatonism
- Platonists
- Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
- Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
- Sophists (Greek philosophy)
- Stoics
- Ancient philosophy
- Greek philosophy
- Philosophy, Greek
- Philosophy, Roman
- Roman philosophy
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Rationalism in Greek Philosophy (originally published 1961; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by George Boas (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)- The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ludwig Edelstein (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Philosophy of Epicurus: Letters, Doctrines, and Parallel Passages from Lucretius, Translated With Commentary and an Introductory Essay on Ancient Materialism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1963), by Epicurus, ed. by George K. Strodach, contrib. by Titus Lucretius Carus (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Horos: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Thea Potter (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Antient Metaphysics: or, The Science of Universals (6 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour and Co.; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1779-1799), by James Burnett Monboddo (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato; The Golden Sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Harvard Classics v2; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, trans. by Benjamin Jowett, Hastings Crossley, and George Long, contrib. by Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
- Discourses of Epictetus: Selections (New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., c1904), by Epictetus
- Discourses of Epictetus: Selections (New York: Dodge Pub. Co., c1904), by Epictetus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Early Greek Philosophy (based on the 3rd edition, 1920), by John Burnet
- Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays (from a set of Nietzsche's complete works; New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by Maximilian A. Mügge
- A History of Greek Philosophy, From the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881), by Eduard Zeller, trans. by Sarah Frances Alleyne
- A History of Western Philosophy from the Beginnings of Philosophy to Plotinus, by Ralph McInerny (HTML at Notre Dame)
- Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato, by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Maximi Tyrii Philosophumena (in Greek, with Latin commentary; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Maximus of Tyre, ed. by Hermann Hobein
- Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy: Philosophy of the First Six Centuries (London and Glasgow: R. Griffin, 1854), by Frederick Denison Maurice (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Moral Discourses of Epictetus (London: J.M. Dent and Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton and Co., c1910), by Epictetus, trans. by Elizabeth Carter (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Panaetii et Hecatonis Librorum Fragmenta Collegit (dissertation in Latin, with Greek quotations; 1885), by Panaetius and Hecaton of Rhodes, ed. by Harold North Fowler
- Philosophorum Graecorum Veterum, Praesertim Qui Ante Platonem Tloruerunt Operum Reliquiae (2 volumes in 3, in Latin; Amsterdam: J. Müller et Soc., 1830-1838), ed. by Simon Karsten, contrib. by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Empedocles (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Sketch of Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero (Cambridge: University Press, 1912), by Joseph B. Mayor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Theological Tractates (English versions of the Tractates only), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (page images and partial HTML at CCEL)
- The Theological Tractates; The Consolation of Philosophy (in English and Latin; 1918), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (Gutenberg text)
- The Works of Philo Judaeus, the Contemporary of Josephus, by Philo of Alexandria, trans. by Charles Duke Yonge (HTML at earlychristianwritings.com)
- Death by Philosophy: The Biographical Tradition in the Life and Death of the Archaic Philosophers Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Democritus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Ava Chitwood (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)
- Die Ethika des Demokritos (with Greek text and German notes; Marburg: N. G. Elwert, 1893), by approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C. Democritus, ed. by Paul Natorp, contrib. by Theodor Birt
- Epicureanism (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Pott, Young, and Co., 1880), by William Wallace
- Essai sur le Système Philosophique des Stoïciens (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1885), by F. Ogereau
- Excerpta Historica Iussu Imp. Constantini Porphyrogeniti Confecta (4 volumes in 6 parts of Greek text compiled by Constantine VII, with Latin commentary; Berlin: Apud Weidmannos, 1903-1910), ed. by Emperor of the East Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, U. Ph. Boissevain, Carl de Boor, Theodor Büttner-Wobst, and A. G. Roos
- The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Together With a Translation of the More Important Accounts of Their Opinions Contained in the Early Epitomes of Their Works (in English with some Greek passages; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Arthur Fairbanks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- History of Medieval Philosophy, by M. de Wulf, trans. by P. Coffey (HTML at Notre Dame)
- The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), by Diogenes Laertius, trans. by Charles Duke Yonge
- The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1915), by Diogenes Laertius, trans. by Charles Duke Yonge (Gutenberg text)
- Plato and Platonism, by Walter Pater (Gutenberg text)
- Porphyrii De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda: Librorum Reliquiae (main text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Springer, 1856), by Porphyry, ed. by Gustav Wolff
- Tetradymus (containing Hodegus, Clidophorus, Hypatia, and Mangoneutes; London: J. Brotherton et al., 1720), by John Toland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates (new edition, 4 volumes: London: J. Murray, 1885-1888), by George Grote
- Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates (new edition, 4 volumes: London: J. Murray, 1888), by George Grote
- The Religious Experience of the Roman People, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus (London: Macmillan, 1922), by W. Warde Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Necessity or Contingency: The Master Argument, by Jules Vuillemin (PDF at Stanford)
- The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics (London: Longmans, Green, and co., 1870), by Eduard Zeller, trans. by Oswald J. Reichel (page images at HathiTrust)
- A View of the Arts and Sciences, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great (London: J. Bell, 1785), by James Bannister
- A Review of The Theory of the Earth and of Its Proofs, Especially in Reference to Scripture (London: Printed by R. Norton for W. Kettilby, 1690), by Thomas Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kitab al-milal wa-al-nihal: Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects (2 volumes in Arabic, with English title pages and prefatory matter; London: Printed for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1842-1846), by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karim Shahrastani, ed. by William Cureton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy (originally published 1954), by George G. M. James (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Apollonius of Tyana (1901), by G. R. S. Mead
- Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (in French and Greek) (partial serial archives)
- Of the Nature of Things, by Titus Lucretius Carus, trans. by William Ellery Leonard (Gutenberg text)
- On the Nature of Things, by Titus Lucretius Carus, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
- Paradosis and Survival: Three Chapters in the History of Epicurean Philosophy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Diskin Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Philosophy of Epicurus: Letters, Doctrines, and Parallel Passages from Lucretius, Translated With Commentary and an Introductory Essay on Ancient Materialism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1963), by Epicurus, ed. by George K. Strodach, contrib. by Titus Lucretius Carus (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Epicureanism (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Pott, Young, and Co., 1880), by William Wallace
- The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics (London: Longmans, Green, and co., 1870), by Eduard Zeller, trans. by Oswald J. Reichel (page images at HathiTrust)
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