Cosmos of the Ancients
The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology
Literature
Aristotle,
de Anima
Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by Hugh Lawson-Tancred, London 1998
Aristotle, On the Soul, translated by J. A. Smith, WWW classics.mit.edu
Barnes, Jonathan, The Presocratic Philosophers, London 1979
Cicero, De natura deorum, translated by H. Rackham, Loeb, London 1979
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Diodorus of Sicily,
The Library of History, book VI, translated by C. H. Oldfather, volume 3, Cambridge 1970
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, translated by R. D. Hicks, volume I, Loeb, London 1942
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, translated by R. D. Hicks, volume II, Loeb, London 1950
Edmonds, J. M., Elegy and Iambus, volume I, Loeb, London, 1932
Euripides, Bacchae, translated by Richard Seaford, Warminster 1996
Freeman, Kathleen, The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Oxford 1946
Freeman, Kathleen, Ancilla to The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Oxford 1952
Herodotus, Histories, volume I, translated by A. D. Godley, Loeb, London 1981
Kahn, Charles H., Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology, New York 1960
O'Connor, Eugene, The Essential Epicurus, New York 1993
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia, translated by W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod, London 1918
Plato, Cratylus, WWW Perseus
Plato, Cratylus, translasted by B. Jowett, WWW Gutenberg
Plato, Gorgias, WWW Perseus
Plato, Phaedrus, WW Perseus
Plato, Republic, based on several translations, WWW Perseus
Plato, Timaeus, based on several translations, WWW Perseus
Rankin, H.D., Antisthenes Sokratikos, Amsterdam 1986
Robinson, T. M., Heraclitus: Fragments, Toronto 1987
Sandys, John, The Odes of Pindar, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1946
Schibli, Hermann S., Pherekydes of Syros, Oxford 1990
Sider, David, The Fragments of Anaxagoras, Beiträge zur Klassischen Philologie 118, Hain 1981
Tarán, Leonardo, Parmenides: A Text with Translation, Commentary, and Critical Essays, Princeton 1965
Wright, M. R., Empedocles: the Extant Fragments, New Haven 1981
Xenophon, Memorabilia, translated by O. J. Todd, Loeb, London 1979
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