Ancient Philosophy Links and Resources

On-Line Bibliographies from Prof. Freeland

The Presocratics

Plato

• "Platonic" Love
• The Parmenides
• The Timaeus

Aristotle

• The Four Causes
• The Metaphysics
• Aristotle's Biology

Other On-Line Resources

Invaluable Resource: The Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library

• On-Line Searchable Texts
• Art & Archaeology
• Historical Information

Philosophy

General
• Episteme Links, Philosophy Resources on the Internet
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  Ancient

• Cynthia Freeland's Graduate Seminar in Ancient Science
• Ancient Philosophy, taught by Prof. S. Marc Cohen, U. of Washington (includes bibliographies and lecture notes)

General Cultural and Historical

• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
• Cultural Map of Hellas (Greece) (Includes search engines for regions and histories)
• See Plato and Aristotle as envisaged by Raphael in his famous painting, The School of Athens

On-Line Resources:
Thales, from Presocratics Website
Inventing the Solar System: Early Greek Scientists Struggle to Explain How the Heavens Move, by Ellen N. Brundige
Notes on the Miletus Museum
Thales Notes, by S. Marc Cohen
Anaximander Notes, by S. Marc Cohen
Anaxmines Notes, by S. Marc Cohen

On-Line Resources:
Ephesus,, from Perseus. Numerous images and site plans, some dating from 3rd century B.C.E. Quite a bit of historical information and some useful geographical information as well. Well worth a visit.
Notes on the Ephesus Museum
Heraclitus, from Presocratics Web Site [includes fragments]
The World According to Heraclitus (a pictorial rendering)
Heraclitus Notes, by Cynthia Freeland
Heraclitus Notes, by S. Marc Cohen
Heraclitus as a Pantheist, by Paul Harrison. [Note: This is not an academic web site. The visual background is striking, and it includes the fragments.]

On-Line Resources
Parmenides' Text
Parmenides Stage 1, by S. Marc Cohen
Parmenides Stage 2, by S. Marc Cohen
Zeno's Coffeehouse

On-Line Resources
Anaxagoras Page, from Presocratics Web Site
Pluralists and Empedocles, by S. Marc Cohen
Empedocles Fragments
Anaxagoras Fragments
Anaxagoras Notes, by S. Marc Cohen

Check out some nice visuals!
Anaxagoras, by Lynn Mardon
Empedocles, by (?)
Pluralist Themes
Atomism Notes, by S. Marc Cohen

On-Line Resources
Democritus, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Democritus, History of Mathematics Website

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Last Updated August 28, 2006; in process of checking and updating links August 2006

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