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• Required Texts
  1. Cahn, Steven M., ed., Classics of Western Philosophy 4th ed., (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1995) [on sale in University bookstore]
  2. Guthrie, W. K. C., The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1960 [1956]) [four copies on reserve in library]

• General Histories
  1. Armstrong, A. H., The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967)
  2. Boardman, J., J. Griffin & O. Murray, eds., Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford, 1986)
  3. Brumbaugh, Robert S., The Philosophers of Greece (New York: Cronwell, 1964)
  4. _________, An Introduction to Ancient Philosophy 3rd ed. (Westminster, MD: Newman Press, [1957])
  5. _________, A History of Greek Philosophy 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962-1981)
  6. Jones, A. H. M., Athenian Democracy(Oxford, 1957)
  7. Irwin, Terence, Classical Thought (Oxford: Oxford Universitry Press,1989)
  8. Keene, William & Keene, A History of Medieval logic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 19xx)
  9. McMullin, Ernan The Concept of Matter in Greek and Medieval Philosophy (press, place,19xx)
  10. Owens, Joseph, A History of Ancient Western Philosophy (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959))
  11. Russell, Bertrand, The Wisdom of the West (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959)
  12. Some information on-line
  13. Another bibliography on-line

• Maps
  1. McEvedy, Colin, The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1961)
  2. __________, The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1961)
  3. Perseus Atlas Project
  4. Stephanus of Byzantium Ethnica

• Suggestive Studies
  1. Adkins, A. W. H., Merit and Responsibility(Oxford, 1962)
  2. _________, From the Many to the One: a study of personality and views of human nature in the context of ancient Greek Society (Ithaca: Cornell University Prss, 1970)
  3. _________, Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Ancient Greece(New York: W. W. Norton, 1972)
  4. Armstrong, Karen, A History of God: the 4000 year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (New York: Ballantine, 1993)
  5. Bernal, Martin, Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization 3 vol. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press , 1987)
  6. Brumbaugh, Robert S. Platonic Studies of Greek Philosophy: form, arts, gadgets, and hemlock (Albany; SUNY Press, 1989)
  7. Burkert, W., Greek Religion (Oxford, 1985)
  8. Chadwick, john, The Decipherment of Linear B (Cambridge: Canbridge University Press, 1970)
  9. Collingwood, R.C., The Idea of Nature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945)
  10. Connor, W. Robert., The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1992 [1971])
  11. Dodds, E. R., The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951)
  12. __________, The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays (Oxford, 1973)
  13. Dover, K. J., Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978)
  14. __________, Greek Popular Moarlity in the Time of Plato and Aristotle (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1974)
  15. Finley, M. I., The Ancient Economy ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973)
  16. Freeman, Kathleen, The Murder of Herodes and Other Trials from Athenian Law Courts (New York: Norton, 1963)
  17. __________, Aspects of Antiquity (London, 1968)
  18. Fustel de Coulanges, Numas Denis, The Ancient City: a study on the religion, laws, and institutions of Greece and Rome W. Small, tr. [1873] (Garden City: Doubleday, [1864])
  19. Guthrie, W. K. C., The Greeks and their Gods (Boston: Beacon Press, 1950)
  20. __________, In the Beginning: some Greek views on the origins of life and the early state of man (London, 1957)
  21. Heidegger, Martin, Early Greek Thinking D. F. Krell & F. A. Capuzzi, trs. (New York: Harper & Row, 1975)
  22. Jacobs, Jane, Systems of Survival: a dialogue on the moral foundations of commerce and politics (New York: Random House, 1992)
  23. Jaeger, Werner, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture 3 vol., 2nd ed. G. Highet, tr. (Oxford: Blackwell's, 1947)
  24. Lefkowitz, Mary, Not Out of Africa: how Afrocentrism became an excuse to teach myth as history (New York: Basic Books, 1996)
  25. Lloyd, G. E. R., Demystifying Mentalities (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1990)
  26. Menage, Gilles, The History of Women Philosopers Beatrice H. Zedler, tr. (Lanham, MD: University of America Press, 1984 [16xx]))
  27. Nietzsche, F. W., The Birth of Tragedy Walter Kaufmann, tr, (New York: Vintage/Random House, 1967)
  28. Nussbaum, Martha C., The Fragility of Goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986so)
  29. Ong, Walter J., Interfaces of the Word: studies in the evolution of consciousness and culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977)
  30. __________, Orality and Literacy: the technology of the word (London: Methuen, 1982)
  31. __________, The Presence of the Word: some prolegomena for cultural and religious history (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967)
  32. Popper, K. R., The Open Society and its Enemies 2 vols., 5th ed. (1966 [1944])
  33. Scaife, R. & S. Bonefas, "Women & Gender in the Ancient World," Diotima
  34. Sorabji, R., Necessity, Cause, and Blame (London, 1980)
  35. __________, Time, Creation and the Continuum (London, 1983)
  36. Snell, Bruno, The Discovery of Mind: Greek origins of European thought T. G. Rosenmeyer, tr. ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953)
  37. de Ste Croix, G. E. M., The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World (London, 1981)
  38. Weil, Simone, Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks Eliz. Geissbuhler, tr. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958)

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• Presocratic Philosophy
  1. Austin, S., Parmenides: Being, Bounds and Logic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986)
  2. Barnes, Jonathan, The Presocratic Philosophers Arguments of the Philosophers Series (London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1979)
  3. Cherniss, H. F., Aristotle's Criticism of Presocratic Philosophy (Baltimore, 1935)
  4. Cornford, F. M. The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950)
  5. Diels, H. & W. Kranz, eds., Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 2 vols., 10th ed., (Berlin, 1952)
  6. Freeman, Kathleen, Ancilla to the Presocratic Philosophers (Oxford: Blackwell's, 1948)
  7. _________, Companion to the Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966)
  8. Furley, D. J., Two Studies in the Greek Atomists (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967)
  9. Grünbaum, A., Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes (London, 1968)
  10. Jaeger, Werner W., The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers Gifford Lectures, 1936, Ed. S. Robinson, tr (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947)
  11. Heidegger, Martin & Eugen Fink, Heraclitus Seminar, 1966/67 Ch. H. Seibert, tr. (University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1979)
  12. Huffman, C. A., Philolaus of Croton, Pythagorean and Presocratic (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,1993)
  13. Kahn, C, H., Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (New York, 1960)
  14. __________, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (Cambridge, 1979)
  15. Kerford, G. B., The Sophistic Movement (Cambridge, 1981)
  16. __________, ed., The Sophists and their Legacy (Wiesbaden, 1981)
  17. Kirk, G. S. , Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954)
  18. __________ , "Heraclitus' Contribution to the Development of a Language for Philosophy," in Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, 9 (1964), 73-77
  19. __________ and J. E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers: a critical history with a selection of texts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957; 2nd ed., edited by M. Schofield, 1982)
  20. McKirahan, R. D., Philosophy Before Socrates: an introduction with texts & commentary (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994)
  21. Mourelatos, Alexander, The Route of Parmenides: a study of word, image and argument in the fragments (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970)
  22. O'Brien, D., Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969)
  23. O'Meara, D. J., Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 1989)
  24. Parmenides,
  25. Perry, Adam, ed., Studies in Fifth-Century Thought and Literature Yale Classical Studies v. 22, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972)
  26. Prauss, Gerold, Platon und der logische Eleatismus (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1966)
  27. Reinhardt, Karl, Parmenides und die Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie, (Bonn: 1916)
  28. de Romilly, J., The Greek Sophists in Periclean Athens (Oxford, 1992)
  29. Robb, Kevin, ed., Language and Thought in Early Greek Philosophy Monist Library of Philosophy (LaSalle, IL: Hegeler, 1983)
  30. Salmon, W. C., ed., Zeno's Paradoxes (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1970)
  31. Schofield, M., An Essay on Anaxagoras (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980)
  32. Stokes, M. C., One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy (Washington, D.C., 1971)
  33. Wheelwright, Philip, The Presocratics (New York: The Odyssey Press, 1996)

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• Plato
  1. Anderson, K. & N. Freund, Apology: hypertext edition [Jowett translation]
  2. Annas, J., An Introduction to Plato's Republic (Oxford: Oxford Press, 1981)
  3. Bostock, D., Plato's Phaedo (Oxford, 1986)
  4. Cobb, William S., Plato's Erotic Dialogues: Symposium & Phaedrus, translated with commentary (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993)
  5. Field, G. C., The Philosophy of Plato (London: Oxford University Press, 1949)
  6. Freeland, Cynthia A., Outline of the Meno
  7. Hackforth, R., Plato's Phaedo (New York: Library of Liberal Arts, c.1952)
  8. Hare, R. M., Plato (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)
  9. Havelock, Eric A.,Preface to Plato (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1963)
  10. Halperin, David, ":Why is Diotima a Woman?" in One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love (London: Routledge, 1990)
  11. Plato, Collected Dialogues E. Hamilton & H. Cairns, eds. Bollingen Series (Princeton, 1961)
  12. __________, Dialogues On-Line B. Jowett, tramslations, MIT
  13. Raven, J. E., Plato's Thought in the Making (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965)
  14. Reeve, C. D. C., Philosopher-Kings: the argument of Plato's Republic (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988)
  15. Robinson, R., Plato's Early Dialectic (Oxford: Oxford Press,193x)
  16. Robinson, T. M., Plato's Psychology (Toronton: University of Toronton Press, 1970)
  17. Shorey, Paul, The Unity of Plato's Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960 [1903])
  18. __________, What Plato Said (Chicago: Cicago University Press, 1965)
  19. Vlastos, Gregory, The Philosophy of Socrates (Garden City: Doubleday, 1971)
  20. __________, ed., Plato 2 vols. (Garden City, 1971)
  21. __________, Platonic Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975)
  22. __________,Plato's Universe (Seattle, 1975)
  23. __________, 'The Socratic Elenchus,' Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. 1, 1983, pp 27-58
  24. Voegelin, Eric, Plato (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1966 [1957])

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• Aristotle
  1. Ackrill, J. L., Aristotle the Philosopher (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981)
  2. __________, ed, New Aristotle Reader (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987)
  3. Allan, D. J., The Philosophy of Aristotle 2nd. ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970)
  4. Anscombe, G. E. M. & P. Geach, Three Philosophers: Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Gottlieb Frege (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1961)
  5. Aristotle, The Complete Works of Aristotle 2 vols., J. Barnes, ed., Bollingen Series (Princeton, 1984)
  6. Barnes, Jonathan, Aristotle (New York: Oxford University Press,1982)
  7. __________, M. Schofield & R. Sorabji, eds., Articles on Aristotle 4 vols. (London: Duckworth 1975-79)
  8. Cherniss. Harold F., Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1944)
  9. __________, Aristotle's Criticism of Presocratic Philosophy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1935)
  10. Edel, Abraham, Aristotle and his Philosophy (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1982)
  11. Grene, Marjorie, A Portrait of Aristotle (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963)
  12. Jaeger, Werner W., Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of his Development Richard Robinson, tr., (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934)
  13. Lear, Jonathan,Aristotle: The Desire to Understand (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  14. Mure, G. R. G., Aristotle (London: E. Benn. Ltd, 1932)
  15. __________, An Introduction to Hegel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940)
  16. Owens, Joesph, St. Thomas and the Future of Metaphysics (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1957)
  17. Polanyi, Karl, 'Aristotle Discovers the Economy' [1957] reprinted in Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economies G. Dalton, ed., (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968)
  18. Robinson, Timothy A. Aristotle in Outline (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995)
  19. Ross W. D., Aristotle 5th ed., (New York: Methuen, 1953)

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• Hellenistic Philosophy
  1. Annas, J. & J. Barnes, The Modes of Scepticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
  2. Barnes, J., M. F. Burnyeat & M. Schofield, eds. Doubt and Dogmatism (Oxford, 1980)
  3. Clark, M. L. The Roman Mind(London, 1956)
  4. Connelly, William R., Stoicism
  5. Jones, A. M. H., 'The Hellenistic Age' in Past and Present v. 27 (1964),1-22
  6. Long, A. A., Hellenistic Philosophy (London, 1974)
  7. __________ & D. N. Sedley, eds., The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
  8. Nussbaum, Martha C., The Therapy of Desire: theory & practice in Hellenistic ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)
  9. __________, Passions & Perceptions: studies in Hellenistic philosophy of mind Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum (press, place,19xx)
  10. On Paganism
  11. Sandbach, F. H., The Stoics (London, 1975)
  12. Shapiro, H. & E. Curley, eds., Hellenistic Philosophy (New York: Modern Library, 1965)
  13. Stoicism on the web

• Christianity & the Patristics
  1. Armstrong, A. H. and R. A. Markus, Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1964 [1960])
  2. Bettenson, H., ed., Documents of the Christian Church 2nd. ed. (Oxford, 1963)
  3. Chadwick, H., The Early Church (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967)
  4. Dodds, E. R., Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: some aspects of religious experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965)
  5. Fox, Robin Lane, Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine (London, 1986)
  6. Geffcken, J., The Last Days of Greco-Roman Paganism (London, 1978)
  7. Kelly, J. N. D., Early Christian Doctrines 5th ed. (London, 1977)
  8. Louth, Andrew, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: from Plato to Denys (Oxford, 1981)
  9. O'Meara, D. J., ed., Neoplatonism and Christian Thought (Albany: SUNY Press, 1981)
  10. Pagels, Elaine H., Adam, Eve and the Serpent (London, 1988)
  11. __________, The Origin of Satan (New York: Random House, 1995)

• Neo-Platonists
  1. Atkinson, M. J., ed., Plotinus: Ennead v. 1...(Oxford, 1983)
  2. Kenny, J. P., Review of O'Meara, "Plotinus"
  3. O'Meara, D. J., Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
  4. Plotinus, Enneads i-v...5 vols, J. M. Atkinson, tr., (London, 1966-84)

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• Augustine
  1. Augustine, The Essential Augustine (Selections) V. J. Bourke, ed. & tr., (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1974)
  2. __________, Confessions E. B. Pusey, tr., (London, 1907)
  3. __________, Confessions on-line
  4. Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (London, 1967)
  5. __________, Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine (Chicago, 1972)
  6. Chatwin, Bruce, Augustine (New York: Hill & Wang, 19xx)

• Early Middle Ages
  1. Spade, P. V., ed. & tr., Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Ockham (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994)
  2. Taylor, H. O., The Mediaeval Mind: a history of the development of thought and emotion in the Middle Ages (place: press, 19xx)
  3. Vignaux, Paul, Philosophy in the Middle Ages: an introduction tr. (place: press,19xx)
  4. Weinberg, Julius R., A Short History of Medieval Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1964)
  5. Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

• High Middle Ages
  1. Copleston, Frederick C., A History of Medieval Philosophy (press, place,19xx)
  2. Dronke, P. ed., A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  3. Evans, Gillian. R., Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages (London: Routledge, 1993)
  4. Gilson, Etienne, Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages Richard Lectures, 1937 , (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1938)
  5. Maritain, Jacques, Art and Scholasticism, with other essaystr., (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1947)
  6. Owens, Joesph, The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics: a study in the Greek background of Medieval thought (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1957)
  7. Spade, P. V., ed. & tr., Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Ockham (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994)
  8. Taylor, H. O., The Mediaeval Mind: a history of the development of thought and emotion in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962S)
  9. Vignaux, Paul, Philosophy in the Middle Ages: an introduction tr., (place: press,19xx)
  10. Weinberg, Julius R., A Short History of Medieval Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1964)

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• Islamic Philosophy
  1. Affifi, A. E., The Mystical Philosophy of Ibnu 'l-Arabi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938)
  2. Al-Farabi, Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle M. Majhdi, tr., (Glencoe,IL, 1962)
  3. Corbin, Henri, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital W. Trask, tr., (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960)
  4. __________, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi W. Trask, tr., (London 1970)
  5. Fakhry, Majid, A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York, 1970)
  6. Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, ed., Islamic Spirituality:
     • v. I: Foundations (London, 1987)
     • v. II: Manifestations (London, 1991)
  7. Rahman, Fazlur, Islam (Chicago, 1979)

• Thomas Aquinas
  1. Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica Fathers of the English Dominican Province, trs.,... Aquinas on-line
  2. Kenny, Anthony Aquinas. (New York: Hill & Wang, 1980)
  3. Leaman, Oliver, An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
  4. Pegis, Anton C., At the Origins of the Thomistic Notion of Man (New York, 1963)

• Machiavelli
  1. Ascoli, A. R. & V. Kahn, eds., Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)
  2. Baron, Hans, 'Machiavelli the Republican Citizen and Author of The Prince' [1961] rev. ed. in H. Baron, In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), 2:101-51
  3. Berlin, Isaiah, 'The Originality of Machiavelli' in Studies on Machiavelli M. Gilmore, ed., (Florence: Sansoni, 1972), 149-206
  4. Bock, G., Q. Skinner & M. Viroli, eds., Machiavelli and Republicanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
  5. Cassirer, Ernst, The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948)
  6. Fiore, Silia R., Niccolo Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Scholarship and Criticism (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990)
  7. Machiavelli, N., The Prince D. Wootton, tr. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995 [1516])
  8. Skinner, Quentin, Machiavelli (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981)
  9. Machiavelli's Page

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