Philosophie in der Antike

Works of Aristotle
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Works by other Greek Philosophers
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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Links to other Classics and Philosophy sites

Texts and Essays

Texts:

• The fragments of Heraclitus in the original Greek (from the Diels edition) with French translations (in PDF format).
• Parmenides' poem in the original Greek (from the Diels edition) with facing French translation (in PDF format).
• On-line texts of Plato and Aristotle (UCSB)
• Ancient texts with search engine (MIT)
• Philosophy Archive (Georgia)
• Perseus Project (includes texts of Aristotle in both Greek and English)
• Searchable database of  the works of Plato and Aristotle (and other philosophers, too! You must be a UW Student, Faculty, or Staff to use this database.)
• The text of Plato's Phaedo (Jowett translation)
• The text of Plato's Phaedo (Fowler translation)
• The text of Plato's Republic (Jowett translation)
• Aristotle's Texts in English:
  • Metaphysics (W. D. Ross translation)
  • On the Soul (De Anima)  (J. A. Smith translation)
  • Posterior Analytics (Mure translation)
  • Physics (Hardie & Gaye translation)
  • On the Heavens (De Caelo) (J. L. Stocks translation)

Essays:

     The Presocratics:

• John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy
  • Xenophanes
  • Heraclitus
  • Parmenides
  • Zeno
  • Melissus
  • Empedocles
  • Anaxagoras
• Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy articles on:
  • Thales
  • Anaximander
  • Anaximenes
  • Heraclitus
  • Parmenides
  • Zeno
  • Empedocles
  • Anaxagoras
  • Leucippus
  • Democritus
• Other articles on the Presocratics:
  • Heraclitus (by Anthony Beavers)
  • Pythagoras (by Anthony Beavers)
  • Presocratic Contributions to the Theory of Knowledge (by James H. Lesher)
  • David Reeve's lecture on Ionian thinkers: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Heraclitus
  • A contemporary scientist's take on the Presocratics (by Fred L. Wilson, professor of science and technology at Rochester Institute of Technology).
• Before the Presocratics: the traditional Greek view of Creation

     Socrates and Plato:

• An Outline of Plato's Meno, by Cynthia Freeland
• An Outline of Plato's Euthyphro, by Cynthia Freeland
• An Outline of Plato's Timaeus, by Cynthia Freeland
• An analysis of Plato's final argument for immortality in the Phaedo, by Owen McLeod
• D. Anthony Storm's Web Site On Plato
• A contemporary scientist's take on Plato (by Fred L. Wilson, professor of science and technology at Rochester Institute of Technology).

     Aristotle:

• Names and Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Aristotle
• Aristotle's CATegories (with photo!), courtesy of Cynthia Freeland
• An Outline of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Z, by Marc Cohen
• An Outline of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Books Z and H, by Cynthia Freeland
• A contemporary scientist's take on Aristotle (by Fred L. Wilson, professor of science and technology at Rochester Institute of Technology).
• Robin Smith's lecture on Aristotle on dialectic and first philosophy
• Robin Smith's lecture on Aristotle on predication and the categories
• A warning about Aristotle's frequent use of "man" as an example

Other Links

• Ancient Greek Science
  • A History of Greek Astronomy (by Ellen N. Brundige)
• Maps:
  • Cultural Maps of Contemporary Greece (Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
  • The Ancient Greek World (with labels in Greek!)
• Paleography:
  
  Paleography is the study and scholarly interpretation of ancient written documents.  
  
  • The Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web Site
  • The Philodemus Project: See photos of ancient papyrus rolls of the works of Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher. The papyri have been recovered from Herculaneum, near Naples, where they were buried in the famous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E.
  • The Greek Alphabet (if you want to know what the Greek letters look like and how to pronounce them).
  • Textual Criticism: How a modern edition of an ancient Greek text is prepared
  • An Exercise in Textual Criticism: try your hand at analyzing some simulated manuscripts of an original text
  • Scribes and their tools
• Philosophy Journals
  
  • JSTOR
  • Electronic Journals via UW Libraries Gateway
• Ancient Philosophy Links:
  • The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • Cynthia Freeland's (Rice University) Ancient Philosophy Web Page
    
• Search Engines
  
• Other Useful Links:
  • Peter J. King's Philosophy Around the Web
  • A Chronology of Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Greek Art: a collection of images
  • Strunk: Elements of Style
  • UW Philosophy Department Home Page

Ancient Philosophy in the News

• The New York Times Book Review (September 28, 1997) of  ''The Fire Within the Eye,'' by David Park, a history of light: this book has a lot about ancient physical theories of matter, light, etc., and includes discussions of  Thales, Empedocles, Democritus, and Aristotle.  The author, David Park (a physicist, not a philosopher or an historian), is sometimes wrong about the details, but he is seldom uninteresting.  (Read the first chapter of  ''The Fire Within the Eye.'')
  
• Aristotle's Lyceum Found?  Read all about it.
  
• Papyrus of Empedocles Found?  Said to date from first century BCE.