HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Audience

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL) THOUGHT
(c.700 BCE - c.300 CE)


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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • 13th Conference, Fédération Internationale des Associations d’Etudes Classiques, Humboldt-Universitaet, August 24-29
  • Ninth Annual Independent Meeting, Ancient Philosophy Society, Loyola College in Maryland, April 23-26
  • Annual Meeting, Classical Association and Classical Association of Scotland, Department of Classics, University of Glasgow, April 3-6
  • Annual Conference, Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Newcastle University, April 2-3
  • Erôs in Ancient Greece, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, March 28-31

2008:

  • Greeks, Romans, Africans, 9th UNISA Classics Colloquium, University of South Africa, Pretoria, October 23-25
  • Beauty, Harmony, and the Good, Seventh Conference of the Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, October 3-4, 2008

  • Annual Meeting, Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, September 18-20

  • Plato in the Stoa: Plato's Legacy in Stoicism, School of Classics, University of St Andrews, September 6
  • Where the Wild Things Are: Inhuman Territories in Classical Antiquity, University of Reading, September 4-5
  • Approaches to Ancient Medicine, University of Reading, August 21-22
  • Perceptions of Polis Religion: Inside/Outside, Department of Classics, University of Reading, July 4-6
  • Orality, Literacy, Religion, Department of Classics of the Radboud University Nijmegen, Programme in Ancient History of Utrecht University and OIKOS (Dutch Research School in Classical Studies), July 2-6
  • Ionian Philosophy and Science, Inaugural Conference, International Association for Presocratic Studies, Brigham Young University, June 23–27

  • Sixth Annual Conference, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Hotel Provincial, New Orleans, June 19-22
  • Valuing Others, 5th Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, University of Leiden, June 6-8
  • Self and Personality in Ancient Philosophy, Departement de Philosophie et de Sciences sociales, l'Universite de Crete, May 25-26
  • Classical Empires in Contemporary Culture, Institute of Classical Studies and Department of Greek and Latin, University College London, May 23
  • Insiders and Outsiders in Greece and Rome, University of Wales, May 17-18
  • Violent Commensality: Animal Sacrifice and its Discourses in the Ancient World, Department of Classics, University of Reading, May 11
  • Humans and Other Animals in the Ancient World, Leeds International Classics Seminar, University of Leeds, May 9
  • Rhetoric and Literary Genres in Ancient Greece and Rome, Classics Department, University of Athens, May 9
  • Personality and Power in Late Antiquity, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, April 18
  • Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece, Swedish Institute at Athens and the British School at Athens, April 17-19
  • Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, April 16-17
  • Annual Meeting, Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Newcastle University, April 2-3
  • Annual Conference, Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Leeds University, March 27-28
  • The World in One City, Annual Conference, Classical Association, University of Liverpool, March 27-30
  • 29th Conference, Australasian Society for Classical Studies, Classics Department, University of Canterbury, January 27-31

2007:

2006:

  • Diasporas and Identities in the Ancient Mediterranean World, PORTUS: Liverpool Classics Research Seminar, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, September-December

  • Annual Colloquium in Classical Philosophy, Princeton University, December 2-3

  • Philosophy and Religion in Ancient Greece, Northwestern University, November 3-4

  • Ancient and Medieval Philosophy 2006, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, October 20-22

  • Annual Meeting, Southern Association of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, September 14-16

  • Exchange in Classical Antiquity: Gifts, Ransoms, Dowries, Bribes, Seventh UNISA Classics Colloquium, Department of Classics, University of South Africa, Pretoria, August 3-5

  • Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire (1st-4th century AD), Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter, July 17-20

  • Dios y el cosmos en la filosofía estoica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), July 3-5

  • Fourth Annual Conference, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Universitéde Laval, Quebec City, June 26-29

  • KAKOS: Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity, Fourth Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, University of Pennsylvania, June 1-3

  • Sixth Annual Meeting, Ancient Philosophy Society, DePaul University, April 20-22

  • 2006 Meeting, Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy (NAAP), Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, March 30-31

  • Creating a Hellenistic World, Department of Classics, University of Edinburgh, February 24-26

2005:

  • Hegemony and Cornucopia: Classical Scholarship and the Ideology of Imperialism, Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, December 10

  • 23rd International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, October 14-16

  • Living in Antiquity: Jews, Greeks, and Christians, Core Humanities Program, Villanova University, October 5-7

  • Galen and the World of Knowledge, Dept of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter, July 18-21

  • Third Annual Conference, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, New Orleans, June 22-26

  • LOGOS: Rational Argument in Classical Rhetoric, Department of Classics, Royal Holloway College, University of London, June 1

  • Ethics, Politics, Criminality: Perspectives from Greek Philosophy and Africa, South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, University of Pretoria and University of South Africa, May 4-6

  • Discovery of the Alexandrian Philosophy School of the 6th Century by Polish Archaeologists, 2004, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, April 18-19

  • Fifth Annual Conference, Ancient Philosophy Society, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, April 14-16

  • Annual Meeting, Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, St. John's College, University of Durham, April 13-14

  • Humans and Animals in Antiquity: Boundaries and Transgressions, Universität Rostock, April 8-10

  • Prime Giornate di Studio sulla Letteratura Socratica Antica, Dipartimento di Filosofia dell'Università di Perugia, in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli, Senigallia, February 17-19

  • XXVI Conference, Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference, Department of Classics, University of Otago, New Zealand, January 31-February 2

2004:

  • Y-a-t-il des vertus intellectuelles?  Réponses antiques et médievales, départements de philosophie des Universités Nancy 2 et Strasbourg II et les Archives Poincaré, Décembre 2

  • Annual Conference, Australasian Society for Ancient Philosophy, Queens College, University of Melbourne, November 16-17, 2004

  • Y-a-t-il des vertus intellectuelles?  Réponses contemporaines, les départements de philosophie des Universités Nancy 2 et Strasbourg II et les Archives Poincaré, Octobre 2

  • International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, October 22-24

  • Neoplatonismo pagano vs. Neoplatonismo cristiano: Identità e intersezioni, Cattedre di Storia della Filosofia Antica e Medievale, Università degli Studi di Catania, Settembre 24-25

  • II Symposium Praesocraticum, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Settembre 16-18

  • Post-Hellenistic Philosophy, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, July 19-23

  • Second Annual Conference, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK, June 24-27

  • Journee Platonicienne 2004, Canada Society of Neoplatonic Studies / Association Canadienne des Etudes Neoplatoniciennes, ACFAS, Universite de Montréal, Mai 11

  • Ancient Paths / Modern Journeys: Reading the Past through the Present, California State University, Hayward, May 7

  • Le Stoïcisme: de la physique à l'éthique, Ecole doctorale lettres, Université Lyon 3, Avril 29

  • Fourth Annual Conference, Ancient Philosophy Society, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, April 16-18

  • Annual Meeting, Northern Association of Ancient Philosophy, Department of Classics, University of Newcastle, April 6-7

2003:

2002:

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2001:

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2000:

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Annual:

  • Ancient Philosophy in London:

  • Annual Meeting, Ancient Philosophy Society

  • Annual Meeting, Arizona Colloqiuium in Ancient Philosophy, University of Arizona

  • Annual Meeting, Classical Association of Canada

  • Annual Meeting of CRATA: Les Stoïciens: questions philosophiques et littéraires, Université de Toulouse 2

COURSES

General:

Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Thought:

Rhetoric:

JOURNALS

General:

Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Thought:

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Pre-Socratics (c.650 - c.500 BCE):

Sophists (c.500 - c.300 BCE):

Classical Greek Philosophy (c.500 - c.300 BCE):

Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Thought (c.300 BCE - c.150 CE):

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • General:

      • Allen, Reginald E., ed.  Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle.  New York: Free Press, 1991.
      • Annas, Julia, ed.  Voices of Ancient Philosophy: an Introductory Reader.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.
      • Baird, Forrest, ed.  Ancient Philosophy.  Vol. 1 of Philosophic Classics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.
      • Cohen, S. Marc, Patricia Curd, and C. D. C. Reeve, eds.  Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: from Thales to Aristotle.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.
      • Irwin, Terence, ed.  Classical Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1999.
    • Pre-Socratics:
      • Barnes, Jonathan, ed.  Early Greek Philosophy.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.  Rev. Ed.  2002.
      • Burnet, John.  Early Greek Philosophy.  1892.  Rpt. New York: Meridian, 1957.

      • Curd, Patricia, and Richard D. McKirahan, eds.  A Presocratics Reader.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1996.
      • Diels, Hermann, ed.  Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.  Berlin: Weidmann, 1903.  Rpt. 6 times up to 1952.
        • Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: a Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.  Trans. Kathleen Freeman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1947.  Rpt. 1983.
      • Gagarin, Michael, and Paul Woodruff, eds.  Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists.  1995.
      • Kirk, G. S., and J. E. Raven.  The Presocratic Philosophers: a Critical History with a Selection of Texts.  Cambridge: CUP, 1957.  Rev. ed. by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and Malcolm Schofield.  1983. 

      • McKirahan, Richard D., ed.  Philosophy Before Socrates: an Introduction With Text and Commentary.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.
      • Waterfield, Robin, ed.  The First Philosophers: the Presocratics and the Sophists.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.
      • Wheelwright, Philip, ed.  The Pre-Socratics.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
    • Sophists:

      • Dillon, John, and Tania Gergel, eds.  The Greek Sophists.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.
      • Gagarin, Michael, and Paul Woodruff, eds.  Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists.  1995.
      • Sprague, Rosamund Kent, ed.  The Older Sophists: a Complete Translation by Several Hands.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1972.  Rpt. 1990.
      • Waterfield, Robin, ed.  The First Philosophers: the Presocratics and the Sophists.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.
    • Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Thought:
      • General:
        • Inwood, Brad, and L. P. Gerson, eds.  Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1988. 
        • Long, A. A., and D. N. Sedley, eds.  The Hellenistic Philosophers.  2 vols.  Cambridge: CUP.
          • Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography.  Vol. 2.  1989.
          • Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary.  Vol. 1.  1987.
        • Saunders, Jason L., ed.  Greek and Roman Philosophy after Aristotle.  New York: Free Press, 1997.
      • Epicureanism:

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      • Neoplatonism:

        • John Dillon and Lloyd P. Gerson, eds.  Neoplatonic Philosophy: Introductory Readings.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004.

        • Dillon, John, ed.  The Middle Platonists.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977.
      • Pyrrhonism:

        • Annas, Julia, and Barnes, Jonathan, eds.  The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

      • Stoicism:

        • Von Arnim, Hans, ed.  Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta.  Leipzig, 1903-5.

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • Dorsch, T. S., ed. and trans.  Classical Literary Criticism.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.
        • Laird, Andrew, ed.  Oxford Readings in Ancient Literary CriticismOxford: OUP, 2006.

        • Preminger, Alex, O. B. Hardison, and Kevin Kerrane, eds.  Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations.  New York: Frederick Ungar, 1971.
        • Russell, D. A., and M. Winterbottom, eds.  Ancient Literary Criticism: the Principle Texts in New Translations.  Oxford: OUP, 1972.
      • Communication:

        • Ballif, Michelle, and Michael G. Moran, eds.  Classical Rhetoric and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.

        • Matsen, Patricia P., ed.  Readings from Classical Rhetoric.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

    • Pre-Socratics:

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    • Sophists:

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    • Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Thought:

      • General:
        • Aristocles of Messene.  Aristocles of Messene: Testimonia and Fragments.  Ed. Maria Lorenza Chiesara.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.
        • Diogenes Laertius.  Lives of Eminent Philosophers.  2 Vols.  Trans. R. D. Hicks.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1925.
        • Eusebius.  The History of the Church.  Trans. G. A. Williamson.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.
        • Eusebius.  Preparation for the Gospel.  2 vols.  Trans. Edwin Hamilton Gifford.  Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981.  (Rpt. of the 1903 Clarendon edition)
        • Lactantius.  Divinae Institutiones.  Trans. Sister M. F. McDonald.  Fathers of the Church.  Vol. 49.  Washington: Catholic U of America P, 1964.
        • Origen of Alexandria.  "Commentary on John."  The Ante-Nicene Fathers.  Vol. X.  Eerdmans, 1979.
        • Origen of Alexandria.  "On First Principles [De Principiis]." The Ante-Nicene Fathers.  Vol. IV.  Eerdmans 1979.
        • Philo of Alexandria.  "On the Creation of the World [De Opificio Mundi]."  Trans. F. H. Colson and G. H. Whitaker.  Vol. 1 of The Loeb Classical Library edition of Philo.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1929.
        • Plutarch.  Moralia.  17 Vols.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927-1976.
        • Proclus.  Lost Fragments of Proclus.  Trans. T. Taylor.  Wizards Bookshelf, 1988.
        • Proclus.  Ten Doubts Concerning Providence, and On the Subsistence of Evil.  Trans. T. Taylor.  Ares, 1980.
      • Epicureanism:

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      • Neoplatonism:

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      • Pyrrhonism:

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      • Stoicism:

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      • Arts:

      • Communication:

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Socio-Historical Context:

      • Osborne, Robin.  "The Polis and its Culture."  From the Beginning to Plato.  Ed. C. C. W. Taylor.  Vol. 1 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.  9-46.

    • General:

      • Armstrong, A. H., ed.  Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1967.
      • Bobonich, Christopher, and Pierre Destrée, eds.  Akrasia in Greek Philosophy: From Socrates to Plotinus.  Leiden: Brill, 2007.

      • Furley, David, ed.  From Aristotle to Augustine.  Vol. 2 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1999.

      • Loraux, Nicole, Gregory Nagy, Laura M. Slatkin, eds.  Antiquities.  Vol. 3 of Postwar French Thought.  Trans. Arthur Goldhammer.  New York: New Press, 2001.

      • Sedley, David, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

      • Shields, Christopher, ed.  Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

      • Taylor, C. C. W., ed.  From the Beginning to Plato.  Vol. 1 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.
      • Woodard, Roger D., ed.  Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology.  Cambridge: CUP, .
    • Pre-Socratics:
      • Long, A. A., ed.  Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

    • Sophists:

      • Jarrett, James L., ed.  The Educational Theories of the Sophists.  Columbia: Teachers College Press, 1969.

      • Kerferd, George B., ed.  The Sophists and their Legacy.  Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1981.

    • Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Thought:

      • General:

        • Algra, Keimpe, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld and Malcolm Schofield, eds.  Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

        • Armstrong, A. H., ed.  Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1967.
        • Furley, David, ed.  From Arist