Ancient Roots

Homer, Plato, the Stoics, and classical scholarship

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111 titles
A Study of Thumos in Early Greek Epic
Caroline P. Caswell
1990
Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature
Douglas L. Cairns
1993
Apology
Plato
399 BCE
Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry
Emily Vermeule
1979
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
1927
Buddha
Karen Armstrong
2001
Charmides
Plato
380 BCE
Cratylus
Plato
360 BCE
Critias
Plato
360 BCE
Crito
Plato
360 BCE
De Anima (On the Soul)
Aristotle
350 BCE
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)
Cicero
45 BCE
Discourses
Epictetus
108
Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation
Richard Sorabji
2000
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
Anne Carson
1986
Eryxias
Plato
370 BCE
Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism
Brad Inwood
1985
Etymological Dictionary of Greek
Robert Beekes
2010
Euthydemus
Plato
384 BCE
Euthyphro
Plato
380 BCE
Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus
Robert E. Sinkewicz
2003
Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus
Heraclitus
2001
Gorgias
Plato
380 BCE
Greek Lexicographical Notes: A Critical Supplement to the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell-Scott-Jones
Robert Renehan
1975
Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical
Walter Burkert
1977
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Hesiod
700 BCE
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Hesiod
700 BCE
Homeric Dictionary
Georg Autenrieth
1891
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Walter Burkert
1972
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self
Ruth Padel
1992
In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions and Materiality in Premodern Europe
Douglas Cairns and Curie Virág
2024
Indo-European Language and Society
Émile Benveniste
1969
Ion
Plato
390 BCE
Laches
Plato
380 BCE
Last Lectures: Collège de France 1968 and 1969
Émile Benveniste
2012
Laws
Plato
347 BCE
Lesser Hippias
Plato
395 BCE
Lysis
Plato
380 BCE
Margins of Philosophy
Jacques Derrida
1982
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
0
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
1641
Menexenus
Plato
386 BCE
Meno
Plato
385 BCE
Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values
Arthur W.H. Adkins
1960
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
1946
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
Richard Seaford
2004
Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
Jean-Pierre Vernant
1983
On the Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche, Friedrich
1887
On the Soul (De Anima)
Aristotle
350 BCE
Parmenides
Plato
360 BCE
Pensées
Blaise Pascal
1670
Penthos: The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East
Irénée Hausherr
1944
Phaedo
Plato
360 BCE
Phaedrus
Plato
370 BCE
Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1945
Philebus
Plato
360 BCE
Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions
Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure
2021
Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good
Angela Hobbs
2000
Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good
Angela Hobbs
2000
Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato
F. M. Cornford
1937
Preface to Plato
Eric A. Havelock
1963
Problèmes de linguistique générale, I
Émile Benveniste
1966
Protagoras
Plato
380 BCE
Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks
Erwin Rohde
1894
Psychological and Ethical Ideas: What Early Greeks Say
Shirley Darcus Sullivan
1995
Republic
Plato
0
Sacred Psychiatry in Ancient Greece
Georgios Tzeferakos and Athanasios Douzenis
2014
Shame and Necessity
Bernard Williams
1993
Sophist
Plato
360 BCE
Statesman
Plato
360 BCE
Stoicism and Emotion
Margaret Graver
2007
Symposium
Plato
385 BCE
The Abolished Middle: Retrieving the Thumotic Soul from the Unconscious
Cody Peterson
2026
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
Gregory Nagy
1979
The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche, Friedrich
1872
The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle
Hendrik Lorenz
2006
The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought
Bruno Snell
1953
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
Jan N. Bremmer
1983
The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature
David Konstan
2006
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Martha C. Nussbaum
1986
The Greeks and the Irrational
E. R. Dodds
1951
The Hellenistic Philosophers
A.A. Long and D.N. Sedley
1987
The Iliad
Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
2023
The Iliad of Homer
Richmond Lattimore (trans.)
2011
The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Pierre Hadot
1992
The Iron Thūmos and the Empty Vessel: The Homeric Response to 'Answer to Job'
Cody Peterson
2025
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
John Climacus
600
The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry
Milman Parry (edited by Adam Parry)
1971
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
Marcel Detienne
1996
The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek: A Study of Polysemy
Rutger Allan
2003
The Odyssey
Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
2017
The Odyssey of Homer
Richmond Lattimore (trans.)
2009
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
1976
The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate
Richard Broxton Onians
1951
The Origins of Greek Thought
Jean-Pierre Vernant
1962
The Philokalia, Volume 1
G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, and Kallistos Ware (trs.)
1979
The Philokalia, Volume 2
G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, and Kallistos Ware (trs.)
1981
The Philokalia, Volume 4
G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, and Kallistos Ware (trs.)
1995
The Psyche in Antiquity, Book One: Early Greek Philosophy
Edward F. Edinger
1999
The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition
Margaret Alexiou
1974
The Singer of Tales
Albert B. Lord
1960
The Six Enneads
Plotinus
270
The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity
Albrecht Dihle
1982
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
Martha C. Nussbaum
1994
Theaetetus
Plato
369 BCE
Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion
Jane Ellen Harrison
1912
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nietzsche, Friedrich
1883
Timaeus
Plato
360 BCE
Toward the Soul: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Psyche before Plato
David B. Claus
1981
What Is Ancient Philosophy?
Pierre Hadot
2002
Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness
Ruth Padel
1995