Other Links

• Ancient Greek Philosophy Links

  • The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • Cynthia Freeland's (University of Houston) course in Ancient Philosophy

• Ancient Greek Science

  • Inventing the Solar System: Early Greek Scientists Struggle to Explain How the Heavens Move (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.

• Art and Photographs

  • Ancient Greek Art: a collection of images
  • THE ANCIENT CITY OF ATHENS - a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens

• Maps

  • A Gallery of Maps of Ancient Greece (From N.S. Gill, About.com)
  • Interactive Cultural Map of Contemporary Greece (Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
  • Maps of Greece (The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin)
  • 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).
  • Manuscript Transmission: How mistakes creep into manuscripts
  • 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

• Other Useful Links

  • Peter J. King’s Philosophy Around the Web
  • UW Philosophy Department Home Page
  • Want help with writing and grammar? Try Ask Betty, the UW English Department’s guide to grammar for college writers.
  • Strunk and White’s classic The Elements of Style — the best 26 pages you will ever read about how to write well.

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