Ancient and Early Greek Philosophy
Before Socrates:
Homer, Hesiod and the Orphic Cosmogony Ionian Thinkers
Thales of Miletus
Anaximander of Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus
Xenophanes of Colophon
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Italian Schools
Pythagoras of Samos
Alcmaeon of Croton
Pre-Parmenidean Pythagoreanism
Parmenides of Elea
Zeno of Elea
Melissus of Samos
Philolaus of Croton
Eurytus of Croton
Post Parmenidean Systems
Empedocles of Acragas
Anaxagora of Clazomenae
Archelaus of Athens
The Atomists:
Leucippus of Miletus
Democritus of Abdera
Diogenes of Apollonia
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Socrates/Plato
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Epicurus
Epictetus
Lucretius
Marcus Aurelius
Select Bibliograpy
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Benn, A.W.: The Greek Philosophers
Budge, E: The Gods of the Egyptians
Burnet,J: Early Greek Philosophy
Caird, E: The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers
Case, S: The Evolution of Early Christianty
Charles, R: Eschatology, Hebrew, Jewish and Christian
Cornford, F.M.: 'Mystery Religions and Pre-Socratic Philosophy'
Farnel, L; The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion
Gomperz, Th: Greek Thinkers
Guthrie, W: A History of Greek Philosophy
Jaeger, W: The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers
Kirk & Raven: The Pre-Socratic Philosophers
Petrie, W: Personal Religion in Egypt Before Christianity
Zeller, E: Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy