Philosophical Resources

Aristotle's Works



Plato's Works

Zeno and the Beginning of Stoicism by Andrew Erskine
Classics Ireland,Volume 7 (2000).

Cicero:The Dream of Scipio
Translated from the Latin by Richard Hooker

Tacitus: The Death of Seneca, 65 CE
Excerpted from Tacitus: Annals, Book 15, Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Epictetus: The Enchiridion, Written 135 A.C.E.
Translated by Elizabeth Carter. Courtesy of Internet Classics Archive.

Epictetus: The Discourses
Courtesy of Internet Classics Archive.

Epictetus: The Golden Sayings
Courtesy of Internet Classics Archive.

Resources for the study of Philo of Alexandria
"Online Texts, Introduction, Articles and Reviews concerning Philo of Alexandria." Courtesy of Resource pages for Biblical Studies.

George Long: Philosophy Of Antoninus
From the The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato, tr. by Benjamin Jowett; The golden sayings of Epictetus, tr. by Hastings Crossley; the meditations of Marcus Aurelius, tr. by George Long, with introduction, notes and illustrations. Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Marcus Aurelius Antonius: Meditations, 167 CE
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, translated by George Long. Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Porphyry On Images
Translated by Edwin Hamilton Gifford. Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Plotinus The Six Enneads. Written 250 A.C.E.
Plotinus The Six Enneads,Translated by Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page. Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Neoplatonist Philospher: On the Arts and Effects of Ecstasy
Iamblichus, On the Mysteries, III, 4-6). Translation and introduction by Frederick C. Grant, in his Hellenistic Religions (New York, 1953), PP. 173-5. "lamblichus was born in Syria and lived from ca. 250 to 325 A.D. His book On the Mysteries is in the form of a reply by a certain Abammon to a letter by Porphyry addressed 'To Anebo' and is a defence of ritualistic magic or theurgy."

Diogenes Laërtius:The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book VI: The Cynics
From Diogenes Laërtius:The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, trans. C.D. Yonge (London: George Bell & Sons, 1895). Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Diogenes Laërtius:The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book VII: The Stoics
From Diogenes Laërtius,The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, trans. C.D. Yonge (London: George Bell & Sons, 1895). Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Diogenes Laërtius:The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers The Sceptics: Life of Pyrrho
From Diogenes Laërtius,The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, trans. C.D. Yonge (London: George Bell & Sons, 1895). Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

The Emperor Julian: Mispogon (or "Beard-Hater")
Translated by Wilmer Cave Wright for the Loeb Classical Library (1913). Courtesy of Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

Book Reviews

Cicero the Philosopher: Twelve Papers Edited and Introduced J.G.F Powell, ed.,

Review by Andrew R. Dyck.
Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads by Dominic J O'Meara,

Review by John Peter Kenney.
Roman Nature: The Thought of Pliny the Elder. by Mary Beagon,

Review by Sarah Myers.
Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of its Development from the Stoics to Origen. by G.R. Boys-Stones,

Review by Harold Tarrant.
Reading Neoplatonism. Non-Discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius. by Sara Rappe

Review by Pauliina Remes.
The Roman Philosophers: from the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius. by Mark Morford

Review by Brad Inwood.


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