Philosophy 320
History of Ancient Philosophy

University of Washington

Texts and Essays

Texts

The fragments of Heraclitus
in the original Greek with facing English translation by G. W. T. Patrick.

The fragments of Heraclitus in the original
Greek (from the Diels edition) with facing translation by John Burnet (in
PDF format).

Parmenides’ poem in
the original Greek (from the Diels edition) with facing translation by
John Burnet (in PDF format).

Ancient texts with search engine
(MIT)

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.)

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

Milesians

Heraclitus

Parmenides

Zeno and
Melissus

Atomists

Empedocles

Anaxagoras

Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy
articles on:

Thales

Anaximander

Anaximenes

Heraclitus

Parmenides

Zeno

Empedocles

Anaxagoras

Leucippus

Democritus

Other articles on the Presocratics:

Lecture notes on Heraclitus
(by Cynthia Freeland)

“Argumentation and
Hercalitus’ Book” (by Herbert Granger)

Presocratic
Contributions to the Theory of Knowledge (by James H. Lesher)

David
Reeve’s lecture on Ionian thinkers: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and
Heraclitus

Anaxagoras
(by Gareth B. Matthews)

Download Prof. Matthews’ article in PDF
format

Before the Presocratics: the traditional
Greek view of Creation

Peithô’s Web is an
especially good source of links in the classics. See especially the:

collection of Heraclitus
links

collection of Empedocles
links

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

Aristotle:

Names and
Abbreviations of Aristotle’s Works

Aristotle article in the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy

Aristotle articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy

Aristotle’s
CATegories (with photo!), courtesy of Cynthia Freeland

A chart of the
Categories, courtesy of Richard A. Field

An Outline of
Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book Z, by Marc Cohen

An Outline of
Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Books Z and H, by Cynthia Freeland

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

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