Selected Background Bibliography

 

History

Antony Andrewes The Greeks (WW Norton & Co.)

H.D.F. Kitto The Greeks (Penguin Books)

Oswyn Murry. Early Greece (Fontana Press)

Philosophy

Pre-Socratics

John Burnet. Early Greek Philosophy (Maridian Books)

WKC Guthrie A History of Geek Philosophy Vol I "The Earlier Prescocratics and the Phythagoreans" and Vol II "The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus" (Cambridge University Press)

Plato

I.M. Crombie An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines (International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method). Two Volumes. Analytic treatment of Plato.

John Sallis Being and Logos (Duquesne University Press). A Continental treatment of Plato.

Aristotle

Joseph Owen, The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics (Pontifical institute of Mediaeval Studies).

Francis Sparshott. Taking Life Seriously: A Study of the Argument of the Nicomachean Ethics (University of Toronto Press).

Aristide Tessitore, Reading Aristotle’s Ethics (SUNY Press).

Stephen Halliwell, Aristotle’s Poetics (University of Chicago Press).

Religion

Robert Graves. The Greek Myths (Penguin Press)

WKC Guthrie The Greeks and Their Gods (Beacon Press)


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Carnegie Mellon University