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Bibliography for Stoicism
Articles in Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Stoicism,” “Zeno of Citium,” “Cleanthes,” “Chrysippus,” “Panaetius of Rhodes,” “Posidonius,” “Epictetus,” “Seneca,”
“Marcus Aurelius.”
Annas, J. (1993) The Morality of Happiness. New York and Oxford.
Arnold, E. Vernon (1911). Roman Stoicism. Cambridge: University Press. Repr. ed. 1958. Not terribly good, but a lot of out of the
way information on minor figures, and quotations of a lot of texts.
Baldry, H.C. (1959). “Zeno’s ideal state.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 79: 3–15. A good account of Zeno’s Republic.
________ (1965). The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought. Cambridge.
Bobzien, Susanne (1999). Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Brink, C.O. (1955). “Theophrastus and Zeno on nature and moral theory.” Phronesis 1: 123–45.
Brunschwig, Jacques. (1994). Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge, England.
Brunschwig, J. and M. Nussbaum (1993). Passions and Perceptions: Studies in the Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. Proceedings of the Fifth
Symposium Hellenisticum. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
Cicero. On Fate. On the Nature of the Gods. On Divination. On Duties, On Ends, Academica, Tusculan Disputations.
Cooper, John M. (1999). “Eudaimonism, the Appeal to Nature, and ‘Moral Duty’ in Stoicism,” in Reason and Emotion (Princeton:
Princeton University Press) 427-448. "Posidonius on Emotions," 449-484. "Greek Philosophers on Euthanasia and
Suicide," pp. 515-541.
De Lacy, P. “The Stoic categories as methodological principles.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 76: 246–63.
________ (1966). The Meaning of Stoicism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
R. Dilcher, Studies in Heraclitus (Hildesheim: Olms, 1995).
H. Granger, “Argumentation and Heraclitus’ Book,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2006), 1-17.
Engstrom, Stephen and Jennifer Whiting (eds.) (1996). Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Epictetus. Translations of G. Long (London: Bell, 1877) and P.E. Matheson (Oxford: 1916) are best.
Fortenbaugh, William W. (ed.) (1983). On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus. New Brunswick and London:
Transaction Books.
Gould, Josiah B. (1970). The Philosophy of Chrysippus. Albany: State University of New York Press.
*Hahm, D.E. (1977). The Origins of Stoic Cosmology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Sandbach claims it is important, but
exaggerates the influence of Aristotle.
Hicks, R.D. (1911). Stoic and Epicurean. London: Longmans Green.
Hunt, H.A.K. “Some problems in the interpretation of Stoicism.” Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association
28: 165–77. On determinism and free will.
Ierodiakonou, Katerina (1999). Topics in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Inwood, Brad (1985). Ethics and Action in Early Stoicism. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Jones, R.M. (1926). Classical Philology 21: 97–113. On Posidonius.
________ (1932). Classical Philology 27: 113–35. On Posidonius
Kerferd, G.B. (1972). “The search for personal identity in Stoic thought.” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 55: 177–96.
________ (). “Cicero and Stoic ethics.” In Cicero and Vergil, Studies in Honour of Harold Hunt, 60–74.
Kidd, I.G. "Moral Actions and Rules in Stoic Ethics." In Rist, Ed., The Stoics. Pp.247-258.
Lapidge, M. (1973). Phronesis 18: 240–78. On the elements in Stoicism.
________ (1987). "Stoic Cosmology." In Rist (1987) 161-185.
Long, A.A. (1967). “Carneades and the Stoic Telos.” Phronesis 12: 59–90.
________ (1968a). “Aristotle’s legacy to Stoic ethics.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 15: 72–85.
________ (1968b). “The Stoic concept of evil.” Philosophical Quarterly 18 (1968) 329–43.
________ (1987). "Emotion and Decision in Stoic Psychology." In Rist (1987)233-246 .
________ (1986). Hellenistic Philosophy : Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics.
________ (1996). Stoic Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reesor, Nargaret E. (1987). "Necessity and Fate in Stoic Philosophy." In Rist (1987)187-202.
Schofield, Malcolm and Gisela Striker (eds.) (1986). The Norms of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
_______ (1991). The Stoic Idea of the City. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Striker, Gisela (1996). Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics. Cambridge, England.
Manning, C.E. (1973). “Seneca and the Stoics on the equality of the sexes.” Mnemosyne 26 (series iv): 170–7.
More, P.E. (1923). Hellenistic Philosophies. Princeton. An excellent work, see pp. 94–171 for Epictetus.
Murray, G. (1921). “The Stoic philosophy.” Essays and Addresses. London: Allen and Unwin.

Nock, A.D. (1959). Journal of Roman Studies 49: 1 ff. On Posidonius.
+Nussbaum, Martha (1994). The Therapy of Desire. Princeton University Press. An excellent treatment of the religious/therapeutic
side of Hellenistic thought.
Pohlenz, M. (1948). Die Stoa. Göttingen:Vandenhoeck &Ruprecht. The best treatment, with no parallel in English.
Reesor, M.E. (1954). “The Stoic concept of quality.” American Journal of Philology 75: 40–58.
________ (1957). “The Stoic categories.” American Journal of Philology 78: 63–82.
________ (1965). “Fate and possibility in early Stoic philosophy.” Phoenix 19: 285–97.
Rist, ed. The Stoics.
Robins, H.R. (1951). Ancient and Medieval Grammatical Theory. London. See pp. 25–36 on the Stoics.
Sharples, R.W. (1996). Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics : An Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy. London and New York:
Routledge,1996.V
Solmsen, F. (1961). Cleanthes or Posidonius? The Basis of Stoic Physics. Amsterdam.
Stanton, G.R. (1968). “The cosmopolitan ideas of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.” Phronesis 13: 183–95.
Stough, Carlotte. “Stoic Determinism and Moral Responsibility,” in Rist () 203-231.
Striker, Gisela (1996). “Origins of the Concept of Natural Law,” in Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press) 209-220. Also “Following Nature: A Study in Stoic Ethics,” 221-280, “The Role of Oikeiosis in Stoic
Ethics,” 281-297. Also,“Plato’s Socrates and the Stoics,” 316-324.
Todd, Robert B. (). "Monism and Immanence: The Foundations of Stoic Physics," In Rist () 137-160.
________ (1973). “The Stoic common notions.” Symbolae Osloenses 48: 47–75.
Toynbee, J.M.C. (1944). “Dictators and philosophers in the first century A.D.” Greece and Rome 13: 43–58.
Watson, G. (1966). The Stoic Theory of Knowledge. Belfast.
Wenley, R.M. (1924; 1925). Stoicism and its Influence. Boston: Marshall Jones; London: Harrap.
Wirszubski, G. (1950). Pp. 138–53 in Libertas as a Political Ideal at Rome during the late Republic and Early Principate (Cambridge).
Zeller, Eduard (1892). The Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics. London: Longmans and Greeen. Once the standard work. Chiefly valuable
now for Stoic ethics.
Verbeke, G. (1983). The Presence of Stoicism in Medieval Thought. Washington.
Colish, Marcia (1985). The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. 2 vols. Leiden.
Hellenistic Greek Religion
Tarn, W.W. (1952). Hellenistic Civilisation. Third ed. New York: World Publishing Co.
Cumont, Franz (1912). Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans. G.P.Putnam’s and Sons.
Grant, Frederick (1953). Hellenistic Religions. New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
Hadas, Moses (1959). Hellenistic Culture, Fusion and Diffusion. Columbia University Press.
MacGregor, G.H.C. and A.C. Purdy (1959). Jew and Greek. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press.
Murray, Gilbert (1951). Five Stages of Greek Religion. New York: Doubleday.
Nilsson, Martin (1948). Greek Piety. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Nilsson, Martin (1940). Greek Popular Religion. New York: Columbia University Press.
Nilsson, Martin (1949). A History of Greek Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Nock, A.D. (1933). Conversion. Oxford University Press.
Festugiere, A.–J. (1954). Personal Religion among the Greeks. Berkeley: University of California Press.
To note: Third century developments from contact with East, i.e cults of fortune and fate, Sun and planets as gods, orientalizing
mystery religions. Second century, astrology, and mystery religions sometimes as escape from the planetary gods. Tendency
to view the sect’s god as the only one, or at least the most powerful, others’ gods as aspects of one’s own, or subordinate
to one’s own. So Isis cult: purification and lustration, raised to 8 th sphere to meet Isis, soul becomes free of influence of stars
once free of the stain of sin, ascends to the goddess after death, freed from the body.
Greek Medicine
Sarton, George. Galen of Pergamon.
Singer, Charles. A Short History of Medicine.

Taylor, H.O. Greek Biology and Medicine.
Momigliano, A. (1976). Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization. Cambridge University Press.
Fraenkel, H. (1975). Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy. Trans. M. Hadas and J. New York: Willis. Brace Jovanovich.
Burdert, W. (1992). The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. Harvard University
Press.
Kierkegaard (1841). The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Trans. H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong. Princeton University
Press, 1989.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
The mention of a book or article in the bibliography can be taken as a recommendation for it. Included
are good translations of primary sources, and the most interesting and important secondary sources. Most of
the latter are here because they influenced my exposition, but some argue for interesting views with which I
disagree. I have restricted myself for the most part to works in English.
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________ (1997). Essays on Plato and Aristotle. Oxford University Press.
Adkins, A.W.H. (1960). Merit and Responsibility. Oxford. An excellent treatment of Greek ethical thought
before the fourth century, working from literary texts. Its conclusions may be somewhat overdrawn,
though many critics seem to overreact, and insist on misunderstanding them. For judicious correction,
see Lloyd-Jones (1971) and A.A. Long (1970).
________ (1970). From the Many to the One: A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of
Ancient Greek Society, Values, and Beliefs. Cornell University Press.
________ (1972). Moral Values and Political Behavior in Ancient Greece.
Algra, Keimpe (1999). “The Beginnings of Cosmology.” Chapter 3 in A. A. Long (1999), 45–65.
________, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfield, and Malcolm Schofield (eds.) (1999). The Cambridge History of
Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
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Allen, Reginald E. (ed.) (1965). Studies in Plato’s Metaphysics. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan
Paul Ltd and The Humanities Press.
________ (1970). Plato’s `Euthyphro’ and the Earlier Theory of Forms. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, New
York: Humanities Press.
________ (1980). Socrates and Legal Obligation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Contains a
translation of the Crito and Apology along with an excellent and well written discussion of Socrates’s
philosophy of law.
Annas, Julia E. (1981). An Introduction to Plato’s Republic. Oxford.
________ (1991). “Epicurus’s Philosophy of Mind.” In Everson ed. (1991).
________ (1992). Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Anthes, Rudolf (1961). “Mythology in Ancient Egypt.” In Mythologies of the Ancient World, edited by Samuel
Noah Kramer (Garden City, New York: Doubleday), pp. 15-92. An interesting overview, though his
remarks about the general nature of Egyptian myths are unduly influenced by the notion of
“mythopoeic thought.”
Anton, John P and George L. Kustas (eds.) (1971). Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Vol 1. Albany, New
York: State University of New York Press.
________ and A. Preuss (eds.) (1983). Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Vol 2. Albany, New York: State
University of New York Press.
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Armstrong, A.H. (1959). An Introduction to Ancient Philosophy. Third edition, revised. Newman Press.
Revision of 2d edition edition of 1949. Paperback reprint, Beacon Press 1965. A readable and

insightful short introduction, though somewhat dated.
________, ed. (1967). The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge University
Press.
Armstrong, Karen (2005). A Short History of Myth. New York: Canongate.
Bailey, C. (1928). The Greek Atomists and Epicurus: A Study. Oxford. Reprint ed., Russell, 1964.
Baldry, H.C. (1932). “Embryological Analogies in Pre-Socratic Philosophy.” Classical Quarterly 26: 27-34.
Barnes, Jonathan (1979). The PreSocratic Philosophers. 2 vols. London. Revised edition in one volume,
London: Methuen, 1982. A philosophically lively, but still scholarly, discussion.
________ (1985). “Theophrastus and hypothetical syllogistic”, in Fortenbaugh, W. W., Huby, P. M. & Long
A. A., edd. (1985) Theophrastus of Eresus: On his Life and Work, RUSCH 2 (New Brunswick/Oxford)
125–41
________ (1988). Reply to Burnyeat (1988), in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Supplementary volume
44, 193–206.
Barnes, Jonathan, Michael Schofield and Richard Sorabji (1975–79). Articles on Aristotle. 4 vols. London.
Barnes, Jonathan, ed. (1995).The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge University Press.
Barton, Carlin. (1993). The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster. Princeton University
Press.
Bennett, Jonathan (1964). Rationality. An Essay Towards an Analysis. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. A
sophisticated examination by a first-rate philosopher of what it is to be intelligent, and rational.
Benson, Hugh H., ed. (1992). Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates. New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press. A good collection of the most important articles published since Vlastos (1971a).
________ (1997). Socrates and the Beginning of Moral Philosophy.” In Taylor (1997), Routledge History of
Philosophy: Vol. 1: From the Beginnings to Plato.
________ ed. (2006). A Companion to Plato. Blackwell Publishing.
Bett, R. (2000), Pyrrho, his antecedents, and his legacy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
________ (2002). “Timon of Phlius.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta.
(http://plato.stanford.edu/).
Bevan, Edwyn (1913). Stoics and Skeptics. Clarendon Press. Repr. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1959,
1965. Four lectures, two on the Stoics, one on Posidonius, one on the Skeptics. A brief, readable and
intelligent consideration in the old style, arguing for the superiority of Christianity.
________ (1923). “Hellenistic Popular Philosophy.” In The Hellenistic Age (Cambridge University Press),
79–107.
Bobonich, Christopher (2002). Plato’s Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics. Clarendon Press.
________ (2008). “Plato’s Politics.” In Fine (2008).
Bodnar, Istvan M. (2001). “Atomic Independence and Indivisibility.” Ch. 7 in Preus (2001).
Brandwood, Leonard (1992). “Stylometry and chronology.” In Kraut (1992). An excellent summary of
stylometric research on Plato’s dialogues.
Brickhouse, Thomas, and Nicholas D. Smith (1985). “The formal charges against Socrates.” Journal of the
History of Philosophy 23: 457-81. Reprinted in Benson (1992) 14-34.
________ (1994). Plato’s Socrates. Oxford University Press.
Brittain, C. (2001). Philo of Larissa. Oxford University Press.
________ (2005). “Arcesilaus.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta.
(http://plato.stanford.edu).
Broadie, Sarah (1999). “Rational Theology.” Chapter 10 in A. A. Long (1999) 205–224.
Burkert, Walter (1972). Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Cambridge, Mass. Translated by E.L.
Minar, Jr. from the German edition of 1962. Superseded everything previously written on the

subject.
________ (2008). “Prehistory of Presocratic Philosophy in an Orientalizing Context.” In Curd (2008).
Burnet, John (1915–16). “The Socratic doctrine of the soul.” Proceedings of the British Academy 7: 235–59.
Reprinted in his Essays and Addresses (London, 1929): 126–62.
Burnyeat, Myles F. (1976). “Protagoras and self-refutation in later Greek Philosophy.” Philosophical Review 91:
3-40. Reprinted in Everson (1990).
________ (1980). “Can the Sceptic Live His Scepticism?” In Schofield, Burnyeat and Barnes (1980) 20–53.
________(1981). “Aristotle on understanding knowledge,” in E. Berti, 97–139.
________, ed. (1983). The Skeptical Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
________(1988). “Socrates and the jury: Paradoxes in Plato’s distinction between knowledge and true belief.”
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Supplementary volume 44, 173–206.
________(1990). The Theaetetus of Plato. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. M.J. Levett’s translation,
revised, with a book length introduction.
Burnyeat, M. and M. Frede, eds. (1997). The Original Sceptics: A Controversy. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing
Company.
Calagero, G. (1957). “Gorgias and the Socratic principle ‘Nemo sua sponte peccat.” Journal of Hellenic Studies
1: 12-17. Seems to me to get it more or less right, but for criticism, see Coulter (1964).
Canary, Robert and Henry Kozicki (1978). The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding.
University of Wisconsin Press.
Cherniss, H. (1935). Aristotle's Criticism of Presocratic Philosophy Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
________ (1944). Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Academy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Clark, R.T. Rundle (1963). Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt.
Clay, Diskin (1988). “Reading the Republic.” In Griswold (1988): 19-34.
Cochrane, Charles Norris (1940). Christianity and Classical Culture. Oxford University Press. Paperback edition,
1957.
Cohen, S. Marc (1971). “Socrates on the Definition of Piety.” In Vlastos (1971a) 158-176.
Cohen, Morris and I.E. Drabkin (1948). Source Book in Greek Science. New York: McGraw Hill. Reissue:
Harvard: 1966.
Cooper, John (1985). “Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the independence of oratory from philosophy.”
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 1: 77–96.
________ (1970). “Plato on Sense Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186).” Phronesis 15, 123-46.
Reprinted in Fine, ed. (1999)
Corey, David Dwyer (2002). “The Greek Sophists: Teachers of Virtue,” Ph.D. dissertation at Louisiana State
University.
Cornford, F.M. (1926). “Mystery Religions and Pre-Socratic Philosophy.” In Cambridge Ancient History, vol.
IV, Chapter 15. Cambridge.
________ (1952). Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought. Cornford’s last work,
solidly establishing his pioneering efforts to connect the earliest Greek philosophical speculation to its
mythical background. His readings, brilliant as they are, fail to connect Greek thought to its
ideological functions. For this, see Vernant (1983).
________ (1934). Plato’s Theory of Knowledge. Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., London. A translation and
commentary on the Sophist and the Theaetetus.
________ (1937). Plato’s Cosmology. Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., London. A translation and commentary
on the Timaeus.
________ ( ). Plato and Parmenides. A translation and commentary on the Parmenides.
Coulter, J.A. (1964). “The Relation of the Apology of Socrates to Gorgias’ Defense of Palamedes and Plato’s

critique of Gorgianic rhetoric.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: 269-303. A criticism of Calagero
(1957).
Couprie, Dirk L. (2003). “The Discovery of Space: Anaximander’s Astronomy.” In Anaximander in Context: New
Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press.
__________ (2001). Article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (www.utm.edu/research/iep),
“Anaximander (c. 610-546 BCE).”
Creed, J.L. (1973). "Moral Values in the Age of Thucydides." Classical Quarterly 23, 213-231.
Crombie, I.M. (1962, 1963). An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines. Vol. I. Plato on Man and Society. Vol. 2: Plato
on Knowledge and Reality. London. An excellent work, though rather repetitive and long-winded, and
often less philosophically penetrating than the later works cited here.
________ (1964). Plato: The Midwife’s Apprentice. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. A well-written
summary of the results of Crombie (1962, 1963).
Cross, R.C. and Woozley, A.D. (1964). Plato’s Republic: A Philosophical Commentary. London: Macmillan.
Somewhat oversimplified commentary.
Couissin, P. (1929), “Le Stoicisme de la nouvelle Academie,” Revue d'histoire de la philosophie 3: 241-76, tr. by
Jennifer Barnes and M. Burnyeat as “The Stoicism of the New Academy,” in Burnyeat, ed. (1983)
31-63.
Crivelli, Paolo (2008). “Plato’s Philosophy of Language.” In Gail Fine (2008).
Curd, Patricia (1998). The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought. Princeton University
Press.
Curd, Patricia, and Graham, Daniel (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University
Press.
Dancy, R. M. (1989). “Thales, Anaximander, and infinity.” Apeiron 22,149-190.
________ (1991). Two Studies in the Early Academy. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
________ (2003). “Speusippus.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta.
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speusippus).
________ (2004). Plato’s Introduction of Forms. Cambridge University Press.
________ (2003; rev. 2008). “Xenocrates.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N.
Zalta. (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/xenocrates).
Dannhauser, Werner J. (1974). Nietzsche’s View of Socrates. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Dennett, Daniel C. (1995). Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. Simon & Schuster. A Philosopher’s well–informed
account of evolutionary theory, discussing in the last chapters the evolution of mind and thinking.
________ (2006). Breaking the Spell. Penguin Books. A sophisticated account of religion from an evolutionary
point of view.
Denyer, Nicholas (1991). Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy. London and New York:
Routledge.
Devereux, Daniel T. (1994). “Separation and immanence in Plato’s theory of forms.” Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy 12, 63–90. Reprinted in Fine (1999).
________ (2008). “Socratic Ethics and Moral Philosophy.” In Fine (2008).
DeWitt, Norman Wentworth (1954). Epicurus and His Philosophy. University of Minnesota Press.
Dicks, T.R. “Thales.” Classical Quarterly 9 (1959) 294-309.
Dillon, John (1977; rev. ed. 1996). The Middle Platonists: A Study of Platonism, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220. Duckworth.
________ (1993). Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism, translated with an introduction and commentary. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
________ (2003). The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 B.C.). Oxford: Clarendon Press; New
York: Oxford University Press.

Dilthey, Wilhelm (1957). Dilthey’s Philosophy of Existence: Introduction to Weltanschauungslehre. New York:
Bookman Associates. Translation of The Types of World Views and Their Unfolding Within the Metaphysical
Systems, Gesammelte Schriften VIII 75–118, by William Kluback and Martin Weinbaum.
Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus [ca. 40–120 CE]. Dio Chrysostom. Discourses. Greek edition with translation by
J.W. Colhoon. 5 vols. The Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press. 1932.
Diogenes Laertius [3d century CE]. Diogenes Laertius. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Greek edition with
translation by R.D. Hicks. 2 vols. The Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press. 1925
(revision of vol. 1, 1938). A set of biographies including many quotations from earlier works not
otherwise preserved.
Dobson, J.F. (1918). “The Posidonius myth.” Classical Quarterly 12, 179 ff.
Dodds, E.R. (1928). The Parmenides and the origins of the Neoplatonic ‘One’.” Classical Quarterly 22, 129–42
________ (1951). The Greeks and the Irrational. University of California Press: Berkeley. Reprint, Peter
Smith, 1986.
Douglas, Mary (1966). Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Routledge and Kegan
Paul.
Dudley, D.R. (1937) A History of Cynicism, London: Methuen.
Düring, I. and G.E.L. Owen, eds. (1960). Aristotle and Plato in the Mid-Fourth Century. Göteborg.
Edelstein, Ludwig (1936). “The philosophical system of Poseidonius.” American Journal of Philology 57: 286 ff.
Edwards, C.H., Jr. (1979). The Historical Development of the Calculus. New York: Springer Verlag. Chapter one
provides a conceptually sophisticated review of Greek mathematics.
Eliade, Mircea (1964). Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
A detailed study of Shamanism. Claims that it lies behind Indian meditative religions, Taoism in China,
Orphism in Greece, and Nordic mythology.
Ellis, Havelock (1963). Preface to Plato.
Everson, Stephen, ed. (1990). Epistemology. Companions to Ancient Thought 1. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. An excellent collection of philosophically sophisticated essays on Ancient theory of
knowledge.
________ ed. (1991). Psychology. Companions to Ancient Thought 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. An excellent collection of philosophically sophisticated essays on Ancient philosophy of mind.
Ferrari, G.R.F. ed. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Field, G.C. (1930). Plato and his Contemporaries. London: Methuen & Co.
Fine, Gail (1978). “Knowledge and Belief in Republic V.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 60: 121-139.
________ (1979a). “Knowledge and logos in the Theaetetus.” Philosophical Review 88: 366-97. Reprinted in
Fine (2003).
________ (1979b). “False belief in the Theaetetus.” Phronesis 24, 70-80. Reprinted in Fine (2003).
________ (1980). “One over many.” Philosophical Review 89.
________ (1984). “Separation.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2: 31-87. Reprinted in Fine (2003). On
Aristotle’s contention that Plato “separated” the Forms from particulars, while Socrates did not.
________ (1986). “Immanence.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 4: 71-97. Reprinted in Fine (2003).
________ (1994). “Protagorean Relativisms.” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 10 (Latham, Md:
University Press of America), 211-43. Reprinted in Fine (2003).
________ (1996). “Conflicting appearances: Theaetetus 153d-154b.” In C. Gill and M. McCabe, Form and
Argument in Late Plato. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Reprinted in Fine (2003).
________ (1997). “Forms as causes: Plato and Aristotle.” In A. Graeser, ed. (1997), Mathematics and
Metaphysics (Bern: Haupt), 69–112. Reprinted in Fine (2003)

________ (1998). “Plato’s refutation of Protagoras in the Theaetetus.” Apeiron 32, 201-34. Reprinted in Fine
(2003).
________ (1990). “Knowledge and belief in Republic V-VII.” In Everson (1990): 85-115. Reprinted in Fine
(1999).
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perceptive analyses of the arguments and positions of the various philosophers. He deals with
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represent the range of current views, and many show considerable philosophical as well
anthropological sophistication.
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