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)
  • Presocratic Contributions to the Theory of Knowledge (by James H. Lesher)
  • David Reeve’s lecture on Ionian thinkers: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Heraclitus
  • Article by Gareth B. Matthews on Anaxagoras: “On the Idea of There Being Something of Everything in Everything”
  
  
• 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

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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