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'Ancient philosophy' is the conventional title, in Europe and the English-speaking academy, for the philosophical activities of the thinkers of the Graeco-Roman world. It includes a succession of philosophers who operated over a 1,000-year period from the middle of the first millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium AD - from Thales and the earliest Pre-Socratics to late Neoplatonists and Aristotelian commentators, such as Simplicius and Philoponus. Later thinkers in Europe (e.g. Scotus Eriugena) are normally assigned to the category 'medieval', as are Arabic philosophers such as Avicenna and Averroës. Contemporary philosophers from other cultures (e.g. Confucius, Buddha) are also not included.

Subcategories

• Cynicism
• Cyrenaic School
• Eleaticism
• Epicureanism
• Megarian School
• Middle Platonism
• Milesian School
• Neoplatonism
• Organizations
• Peripateticism
• Philosophers
• Pythagoreanism
• Skepticism
• Sophism
• Stoicism
• The Academy

Resources in This Category

• Ancient Roman philosophy: Discourses by Epictetus

  http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Outline_of_Great_Books_Volume_I/ancientro_bdj.html
  A selection from the Discourses of Epictetus, ancient Roman philosopher who was born 60 AD, on surrender and the will of God.

• Ancient Rome - Philosophy

  http://www.crystalinks.com/romephilosophy.html
  Overview of ancient Roman philosophy by Richard Hooker.

• Classical Political Philosophy

  http://www.morec.com/schall/classica.htm
  Essays on Greek and Roman political thinkers and experiences.

• Greek Philosophy

  http://www.friesian.com/greek.htm
  The Origin of Philosophy: The Attributes of Mythic/Mythopoeic Thought - How was Greek philosophy different from what came before? Or was it different?

• Greek Philosophy

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/greekphi/
  Brief article outlining the history of Greek philosophy. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• History of Ancient Philosophy

  http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/index.html
  Lecture notes to S. Marc Cohen's course at the University of Washington.

• Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics

  http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1175
  Paula Gottlieb reviews Nicholas White's book. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

• Ionian Thinkers

  http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/ReeveIonians.htm
  Essay on the pre-Socratics by C.D.C. Reeve of Reed College

• Nicene and Postnicene Fathers

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf103.html
  Essay by Philip Schaff.

• Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XX

  http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1229
  John E. Sisko reviews this collection of essays edited by David Sedley. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

• Phronesis

  http://pippo.ingentaselect.com/vl=4962531/cl=69/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00318868/contp1-1.htm
  Scholarly journal for the study of ancient Greek and Roman thought, available in print and digital formats. Offers information about subscribing and reproductions of select articles featured in the publication.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Alcmaeon of Croton

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alcmaeon/
  Life and work of early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist, by Carl Huffman.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Archytas

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/archytas/
  Life and work of fourth century BC Greek mathematician, political leader and philosopher, by Carl Huffman.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Episteme and Techne

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/episteme-techne/
  Discussion of the distinction between knowledge and craft, or art in ancient philosophy; by Richard Parry.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Plotinus

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/
  Life and work of this founder of Neoplatonism; by Lloyd Gerson from the Stanford Encyclopedia.

• The Glory That Was Greece

  http://www.watson.org/~leigh/athens.html
  Athenian philosophers by Leigh Denault.

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