Philosophy 320
History of Ancient Philosophy

University of Washington

Other Links

• Ancient Greek Science
  • A History of Greek Astronomy (by Ellen N. Brundige)
  • A history of Greek mathematics and mathematicians (many of whom are philosophers). This site includes articles on Thales, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Zeno, Democritus, Leucippus, Plato, and Aristotle.
    

  
  

• 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 study of ancient philosophy, like the study of ancient religion, depends on the work of paleographers to produce (from ancient and medieval manuscipts) the best approximations we can come up with of the original texts of our ancient authors. Here is a brief sampling of material on the problems of textual interpretation and criticism.
  
  • 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
  
  Among the journals currently available are: Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Mind, Nous, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenologial Research, Philosophical Review.
  
  • 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

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• This page was last updated on 12/2/00.