Classics

Philosophy, science and technology

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Philosophy, Ancient
• Science, Ancient
• Technology, Greece, history
• Technology, Rome, history

Sourcebooks

Diels, Hermann, and Walther Kranz. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 6^th ed. Berlin: Weidmann, 1951-52. YAEC.

Irby-Massie, Georgia L., and Paul T. Keyser. Greek science of the Hellenistic era: a sourcebook. London; New York: Routledge, 2002. JFE 02-17837.

Long A.A., and D.N. Sedley. The Hellenistic philosophers. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. JFL 93-60.

Longrigg, James. Greek medicine: from the heroic to the hellenistic age: a source book. London: Duckworth, 1998. JFE 98-6249.

Oleson, John Peter. Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook. London/New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 99-5369.

Bibliography and Reference

Bell, Albert A., Jr., and James B. Allis. Resources in Ancient Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship in English, 1965-1989. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991. *RS-YAE 00-4646.

Donlan, Walter. The Classical world bibliography of philosophy, religion, and rhetoric. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. *RS-YAE 00-10660.

Goulet, Richard, ed. Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Paris: CNRS, 1989. *R-YAE 90-2069.

McKirahan, Richard. Plato and Socrates: a comprehensive bibliography, 1958-1973. New York: Garland, 1978. *RS-YAET 79-788.

Motto, Anna L. Seneca, a critical bibliography, 1900-1980: scholarship on his life, thought, prose, and influence. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1989. JFE 90-6218.

Navia, Luis E. Pythagoras: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1990. JFD 90-9253.

Navia, Luis E. Socrates: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988. JFD 89-884.

Paquet, Leonce. Les Présocratiques: Bibliographie analytique (1879-1980). Montréal: Les Editions Bellarmine and Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1988-1989. JFL 89-402 [Vol. 1].

Zeyl, Donald J. ed. Daniel T. Devereux and Phillip T. Mitsis, assoc. eds. Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. *R-YAE 97-10082.

Historical and critical studies

Barnes, Jonathan. The Presocratic philosophers. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. *R-YAEB 79-1739.

Barnes, Jonathan, et al., eds. Science and speculation: studies in Hellenistic theory and practice. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1982. JFE 04-13329.

Benson, Hugh H. Essays on the philosophy of Socrates. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. JFE 92-4431.

Keimpe, Algra, et al., eds. Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. *R-YAE 00-12246.

Armstrong, A. H., ed. Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy. London, Cambridge U.P., 1967. *R-YAC.

Cleary, John J., ed. The perennial tradition of Neoplatonism. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1997. JFE 99-2080.

Dodds, E. R. The ancient concept of progress and other essays on Greek literature and belief. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973. JFD 74-2931.

Everson, Stephen, ed. Language. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. JFE 94-16276.

Everson, Stephen, ed. Epistemology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. JFE 90-5593.

Everson, Stephen, ed. Ethics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. JFE 98-9439.

Flashar, Hellmut. Philosophie der Antike. Basel: Schwabe, 1983-. JFL 84-195.

Frede, Michael. Essays in ancient philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. JFE 87-1465.

Guthrie, W.K.C. A History of Greek Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1962-1981. 6 vols. *RR-YAE.

Hankinson, R.J. Cause and explanation in ancient Greek thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. JFE 99-2072.

Healy, John F. Pliny the Elder on science and technology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. JSE 01-1.

Lloyd, G.E.R. Magic, reason, and experience. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. JSE 80-309.

Long, A.A. Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. JFE 00-1538.

Morford, Mark. The Roman philosophers: from the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius. London; New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2002. JFE 00-1538.

Mourelatos, Alexander P.D., ed. The Pre-Socratics: a collection of critical essays. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974. *R-YAEC 00-4648.

Nussbaum, Martha C., ed. The therapy of desire: theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. JFE 94-9144.

Sedley, David, ed. The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. JFE 03-14565.

Shields, Christopher, ed. The Blackwell guide to ancient philosophy. Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2003. JFF 03-1162.

Snell, Bruno. The discovery of the mind: The Greek origins of European thought. New York: Harper, 1960. D-17 3491.

Sorabji, Richard. Necessity, cause, and blame: perspectives on Aristotle's theory. London: Duckworth, 1980. JFE 80-1722.

Striker, Gisela, ed. Essays on Hellenistic epistemology and ethics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. JFE 96-15702.

Vlastos, Gregory. Platonic studies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. JFE 82-1239.

Vlastos, Gregory. Socratic studies. Edited by Myles Burnyeat. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. JFE 94-7198.

Vlastos, Gregory. Studies in Greek philosophy. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. *R-YAEC 00-4649.