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Bibliography of Secondary Materials on Ancient Greek Philosophy

The purpose of the following bibliographical materials is to provide you with a starting point for your own investigations into these materials, i.e., term papers, etc. I have subdivided this list to highlight various thinkers, and, in the case of Plato and Aristotle, topics within these philosopher’s thought.

General Treatments on pre-Socratic philosophy

Barnes, Jonathan, The Presocratic Philosophers, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, revised edition 1982.

Guthrie, W.K.C., The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle, New York: Harper and Row, 1960, reprint of 1950 Methuen and Co. edition.

Hussey, Edward, The Presocratics, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. reprint of the Duckworth 1972 edition.

Long, A.A., The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983.

Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes)

Kahn, Charles. Anaximander and the Origin of Greek Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Reprinted in 1985 and further reprinted Hackett Publishing Co. 1994.

Pythagoras

Boudouris, K.J., ed. Pythagorean Philosophy. Athens: International Society for Greek Philosophy. 1991.

Burkert, W. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. tr. E.L. Minar Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1972.

Kahn, Charles. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, A Brief History. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 2001.

Heraclitus

Hospers J and K. Robb, eds. Heraclitus: The Monist 74, no 4. 1991

Kahn, Charles. The Art and Thought of Heraclitus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Kirk, C.S. Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments. Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1962.

Robinson, T.M. Heraclitus: Fragments. A Text and Translation with a Commentary. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1987.

Parmenides

Cornford, F.M., Plato and Parmenides. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1939, reprinted Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, n.d.

Gallop, D. Parmenides of Elea: Fragments. A Text with an Introduction. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press. 1984.

Owens, J. ed. Parmenides Studies Today: The Monist 69. no 1. 1979

Taran, L. Parmenides: A Text with Translation, Commentary and Critical Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1965

Anaxagoras

Schofield, Malcolm. An Essay of Anaxagoras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1980

Empedocles

Inwood, Brad. The Poem of Empedocles. A Text and Translation with an Introduction. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press. 1992.

O’Brien, D. Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle. A Reconstruction from the Fragments and Secondary Sources. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1969.

Wright, M.R., Empedocles: The Extant Fragments. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1981.

Ancient Atomists (Leucippus and Democritus)

Bailey, Cyril. The Greek Atomists and Epicurus. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1928.

Benakis, L. ed. Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Democritus. 2 vols. Xanthi, 1984. (Note: Most of the papers in this collection are in Modern Greek. There are a number of articles in English and these are some of the most important modern papers on Democritus.)

Furley, David. Two Studies in the Greek Atomists. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1967 (2 volumes)

Sophists

de Romilly, J. The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens, tr. J. Lloyd. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1992

Guthrie, W.K.C. The Sophists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1971.

Sprague, R.K., The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation by Several Hands. Columbia: S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. 1972.

Plato

Note: there is a ton of secondary materials on all aspects of Plato’s thought. For each of the dialogues, there is a specialized commentary. The following list of texts is extremely brief. If you would like additional assistance with this, please see me.

General

Grube, G.MA. Plato’s Thought, second edition. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 1980.

Irwin, Terence. Plato’s Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. (Note: In spite of the title, this text actually covers more than just Plato’s ethics.)

Melling, David. Understanding Plato. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1986.

Epistemology and Metaphysics

White, Nicholas. Plato on Knowledge and Reality. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 1979.

Ethics

Cooper, John. “The Unity of Virtue” in Reason and Emotion. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999.

Cooper, John. “Plato’s Theory of Human Motivation” in Reason and Emotion. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999.

Aristotle

Note: There are literally thousands of book length treatments and hundreds of articles published each year on various aspects of Aristotle’s thought. The list below is a good starting point for further investigations.

General

Robinson, Timothy. Aristotle in Outline. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 1995

Epistemology and Metaphysics

Reeve, C.D.C. Substantial Knowledge. Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 2002.

Ethics

Cooper, John. Reason and Emotion. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999. (over half of the articles in this volume are on aspects of Aristotle’s ethics.

Barnes, Jonathan, Schofield, Malcom and Sorabji, Richard. Articles on Aristotle, Vol. 2 Ethics and Politics. New York: St. Martins Press. 1972.

Barnes, Jonathan, Schofield, Malcom and Sorabji, Richard. Articles on Aristotle, Vol. 3 Ethics and Politics. New York: St. Martins Press. 1973.

Kenny, Anthony. The Aristotlean Ethics: A Study of the Relationship Between the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1978.

Kenny, Anthony. Aristotle on the Perfect Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1992.

Kenny, Anthony. Aristotle’s Theory of the Will. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1979.

Kenny, Anthony. “Aristotle on Happiness”. In Barnes and Schofield. 1977.

Keyt, David. “Aristotle’s Theory of Distributive Justice.” in Miller and Keyt. 1995.

Politics

Miller, Fred Dycus and Keyt, David. A Companion to Aristotle's Politics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1991

Miller, Fred Dycus. Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Epicurus

Annas, Julia. The Morality of Happiness, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Bailey, Cyril. The Greek Atomists and Epicurus, Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1928.

Cooper, John M. “Pleasure and Desire In Epicurus.” in Cooper. 1999.

Chroust, Anton Hermann. “The Philosophy of Law of the Epicureans” The Thomist. Vol 16, 1953. p. 82 - 117 and 217 - 267.

Furley, David. “Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man”, in Lucrèce: Huit exposés suivis de discussions par David Furley (et al.). Foundation Hardt: Geneve. 1978. p. 1 - 27

Furley, David. “Democritus and Epicurus on Sensible Qualities”. from Passions and Perceptions. 1993. p. 72 - 94.

Gigante, Marcello. Philodemus in Italy, The Books from Herculaneum. trans Dirk Obbink. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Gill, Christopher. Reciprocity in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998

Gill, Christopher. “Altruism or Reciprocity in Ancient Greek Ethical Philosophy?” in Gill. 1998

Glad, Clarence. Paul and Philodemus. Adaptability in Epicurean and Early Christian Psychagogy. E.J. Brill. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, Vol. LXXXI. Leiden: Netherlands. 1995.

Glad, Charence. “Frank Speech, Flattery, and Friendship in Philodemus”. Friendship, Flattery and Frankness of Speech. Studies On Friendship in the New Testament World, ed. John T. Fitzgerald. E.J.Brill. Leiden: Netherlands. 1996

Koen, Avraam. Atoms, Pleasure, Virtue: The Philosophy of Epicurus. American University Studies, Series 5. Vol 152. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. New York. 1995.

Long, Anthony A. “Pleasure and Social Utility, The Virtues of Being Epicurean” in Aspects de la Philosophie Hellénistique. Tome XXXII. Fondation Hardt: Vandoevres: Geneve. 1985.

Mistis, Philip. Epicurus’ Ethical Theory, The Pleasures of Invulnerability. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Nichols, James H. Epicurean Political Philosophy: The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius. London, United Kingdom. Cornell University Press. 1976.

O'Connor, David. “The Invulnerable Pleasures of Epicurean Friendship”, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Vol 30, 1989. p. 165 - 186

O’Keefe, Timothy. “Is Epicurean Friendship Altruistic?” Apeiron. Vol 34. No. 4. 2002. p. 268 - 308.

Purinton, Jeffrey. “Epicurus on the Telos”. Phronesis. Vol XXXVIII/3. 1993. p. 281 - 320

Purinton, Jeffrey. “Epicurus on ‘Free Volition’ and the Atomic Swerve”. Phronesis. Vol XLIV. No 4. 1999. p. 253 - 299.

Purinton, Jeffrey. “Epicurus on the Nature of the Gods”. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Vol 21. 2001. p. 181 - 231.

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IDS 121 PHIL 101H PHIL 111 PHIL 112 PHIL 114 PHIL 207 PHIL 224 PHIL 234 PHIL 236 PHIL 238 PHIL 254 Research Vita Home	PHI 254 ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY Waggle Section Bibliography of Secondary Materials on Ancient Greek Philosophy The purpose of the following bibliographical materials is to provide you with a starting point for your own investigations into these materials, i.e., term papers, etc. I have subdivided this list to highlight various thinkers, and, in the case of Plato and Aristotle, topics within these philosopher’s thought. General Treatments on pre-Socratic philosophy Barnes, Jonathan, The Presocratic Philosophers, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, revised edition 1982. Guthrie, W.K.C., The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle, New York: Harper and Row, 1960, reprint of 1950 Methuen and Co. edition. Hussey, Edward, The Presocratics, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. reprint of the Duckworth 1972 edition. Long, A.A., The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) Kahn, Charles. Anaximander and the Origin of Greek Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Reprinted in 1985 and further reprinted Hackett Publishing Co. 1994. Pythagoras Boudouris, K.J., ed. Pythagorean Philosophy. Athens: International Society for Greek Philosophy. 1991. Burkert, W. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. tr. E.L. Minar Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1972. Kahn, Charles. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, A Brief History. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 2001. Heraclitus Hospers J and K. Robb, eds. Heraclitus: The Monist 74, no 4. 1991 Kahn, Charles. The Art and Thought of Heraclitus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Kirk, C.S. Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments. Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1962. Robinson, T.M. Heraclitus: Fragments. A Text and Translation with a Commentary. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1987. Parmenides Cornford, F.M., Plato and Parmenides. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1939, reprinted Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, n.d. Gallop, D. Parmenides of Elea: Fragments. A Text with an Introduction. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press. 1984. Owens, J. ed. Parmenides Studies Today: The Monist 69. no 1. 1979 Taran, L. Parmenides: A Text with Translation, Commentary and Critical Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1965 Anaxagoras Schofield, Malcolm. An Essay of Anaxagoras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1980 Empedocles Inwood, Brad. The Poem of Empedocles. A Text and Translation with an Introduction. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press. 1992. O’Brien, D. Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle. A Reconstruction from the Fragments and Secondary Sources. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1969. Wright, M.R., Empedocles: The Extant Fragments. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1981. Ancient Atomists (Leucippus and Democritus) Bailey, Cyril. The Greek Atomists and Epicurus. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1928. Benakis, L. ed. Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Democritus. 2 vols. Xanthi, 1984. (Note: Most of the papers in this collection are in Modern Greek. There are a number of articles in English and these are some of the most important modern papers on Democritus.) Furley, David. Two Studies in the Greek Atomists. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1967 (2 volumes) Sophists de Romilly, J. The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens, tr. J. Lloyd. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1992 Guthrie, W.K.C. The Sophists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1971. Sprague, R.K., The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation by Several Hands. Columbia: S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. 1972. Plato Note: there is a ton of secondary materials on all aspects of Plato’s thought. For each of the dialogues, there is a specialized commentary. The following list of texts is extremely brief. If you would like additional assistance with this, please see me. General Grube, G.MA. Plato’s Thought, second edition. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 1980. Irwin, Terence. Plato’s Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. (Note: In spite of the title, this text actually covers more than just Plato’s ethics.) Melling, David. Understanding Plato. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1986. Epistemology and Metaphysics White, Nicholas. Plato on Knowledge and Reality. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 1979. Ethics Cooper, John. “The Unity of Virtue” in Reason and Emotion. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999. Cooper, John. “Plato’s Theory of Human Motivation” in Reason and Emotion. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999. Aristotle Note: There are literally thousands of book length treatments and hundreds of articles published each year on various aspects of Aristotle’s thought. The list below is a good starting point for further investigations. General Robinson, Timothy. Aristotle in Outline. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 1995 Epistemology and Metaphysics Reeve, C.D.C. Substantial Knowledge. Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 2002. Ethics Cooper, John. Reason and Emotion. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999. (over half of the articles in this volume are on aspects of Aristotle’s ethics. Barnes, Jonathan, Schofield, Malcom and Sorabji, Richard. Articles on Aristotle, Vol. 2 Ethics and Politics. New York: St. Martins Press. 1972. Barnes, Jonathan, Schofield, Malcom and Sorabji, Richard. Articles on Aristotle, Vol. 3 Ethics and Politics. New York: St. Martins Press. 1973. Kenny, Anthony. The Aristotlean Ethics: A Study of the Relationship Between the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1978. Kenny, Anthony. Aristotle on the Perfect Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1992. Kenny, Anthony. Aristotle’s Theory of the Will. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1979. Kenny, Anthony. “Aristotle on Happiness”. In Barnes and Schofield. 1977. Keyt, David. “Aristotle’s Theory of Distributive Justice.” in Miller and Keyt. 1995. Politics Miller, Fred Dycus and Keyt, David. A Companion to Aristotle's Politics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1991 Miller, Fred Dycus. Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, 1995. Epicurus Annas, Julia. The Morality of Happiness, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Bailey, Cyril. The Greek Atomists and Epicurus, Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1928. Cooper, John M. “Pleasure and Desire In Epicurus.” in Cooper. 1999. Chroust, Anton Hermann. “The Philosophy of Law of the Epicureans” The Thomist. Vol 16, 1953. p. 82 - 117 and 217 - 267. Furley, David. “Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man”, in Lucrèce: Huit exposés suivis de discussions par David Furley (et al.). Foundation Hardt: Geneve. 1978. p. 1 - 27 Furley, David. “Democritus and Epicurus on Sensible Qualities”. from Passions and Perceptions. 1993. p. 72 - 94. Gigante, Marcello. Philodemus in Italy, The Books from Herculaneum. trans Dirk Obbink. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. Gill, Christopher. Reciprocity in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998 Gill, Christopher. “Altruism or Reciprocity in Ancient Greek Ethical Philosophy?” in Gill. 1998 Glad, Clarence. Paul and Philodemus. Adaptability in Epicurean and Early Christian Psychagogy. E.J. Brill. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, Vol. LXXXI. Leiden: Netherlands. 1995. Glad, Charence. “Frank Speech, Flattery, and Friendship in Philodemus”. Friendship, Flattery and Frankness of Speech. Studies On Friendship in the New Testament World, ed. John T. Fitzgerald. E.J.Brill. Leiden: Netherlands. 1996 Koen, Avraam. Atoms, Pleasure, Virtue: The Philosophy of Epicurus. American University Studies, Series 5. Vol 152. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. New York. 1995. Long, Anthony A. “Pleasure and Social Utility, The Virtues of Being Epicurean” in Aspects de la Philosophie Hellénistique. Tome XXXII. Fondation Hardt: Vandoevres: Geneve. 1985. Mistis, Philip. Epicurus’ Ethical Theory, The Pleasures of Invulnerability. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1988. Nichols, James H. Epicurean Political Philosophy: The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius. London, United Kingdom. Cornell University Press. 1976. O'Connor, David. “The Invulnerable Pleasures of Epicurean Friendship”, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Vol 30, 1989. p. 165 - 186 O’Keefe, Timothy. “Is Epicurean Friendship Altruistic?” Apeiron. Vol 34. No. 4. 2002. p. 268 - 308. Purinton, Jeffrey. “Epicurus on the Telos”. Phronesis. Vol XXXVIII/3. 1993. p. 281 - 320 Purinton, Jeffrey. “Epicurus on ‘Free Volition’ and the Atomic Swerve”. Phronesis. Vol XLIV. No 4. 1999. p. 253 - 299. Purinton, Jeffrey. “Epicurus on the Nature of the Gods”. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Vol 21. 2001. p. 181 - 231.
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