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 Platos 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 Aristotles Ethics (SUNY Press).
Stephen Halliwell, Aristotles 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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