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Philosophy
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A True Story — Lucian of Samosata (Harmon)Lucian's satirical proto-science-fiction voyage to the edges of the world, in A. M. Harmon's 1913 Loeb Classical Library translation, with his scholarly notes.Dialogues of Plato — JowettTwenty-three dialogues of Plato in Benjamin Jowett's Oxford translation — the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, Gorgias, Meno, Ion, Republic extracts, Timaeus, Theaetetus, Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and others.Golden Verses of Pythagoras — FirthThe Golden Verses of Pythagoras and other Pythagorean fragments — the foundational ethical text of the Pythagorean school, with Hierocles' commentary and other fragments. Translated by Florence M. Firth (1904).The Discourses of EpictetusThe Discourses of Epictetus, Books III and IV — recorded by Arrian of Nicomedia; translated by W. A. Oldfather. Loeb Classical Library, 1928. Practical Stoic philosophy on freedom, desire, discipline of assent, and the examined life.The First Philosophers of Greece — Arthur FairbanksArthur Fairbanks collects, edits, and translates the surviving fragments and ancient testimony for the Presocratic philosophers from Thales through Anaxagoras.The History of Herodotus Vol. I (Books I–IV) — MacaulayThe complete text of Books I through IV of Herodotus's Histories — Croesus, Cyrus, and the rise of Persia, and the customs of Egypt and Scythia — in G. C. Macaulay's 1890 English translation.The History of Herodotus Vol. II (Books V–IX) — MacaulayThe complete text of Books V through IX of Herodotus's Histories — the Ionian revolt and the Persian invasions of Greece, through Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale — in G. C. Macaulay's 1890 English translation.The Meditations of Marcus AureliusThe private philosophical notebooks of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius — twelve books of Stoic reflection on duty, impermanence, reason, and the examined life, written in Greek during military campaigns on the northern frontier, circa AD 161–180.The Mimes of the Courtesans — Lucian of Samosata (A.L.H.)A 1928 English translation of Lucian's satirical Dialogues of the Courtesans, comic sketches of hetaerae, their lovers, and their trade in Roman-era Greek society.The Poetics of Aristotle — ButcherAristotle's founding work of literary criticism on epic and tragic poetry, in S. H. Butcher's 1902 translation.The Politics of Aristotle — JowettAristotle's complete eight-book treatise on the best forms and constitutions of the city-state, in Benjamin Jowett's 1885 Oxford translation.The Syrian Goddess — Lucian of Samosata (Strong and Garstang)Lucian's first-person account of the cult of Atargatis at Hierapolis, translated by Herbert A. Strong with introduction, life of Lucian, and notes by John Garstang (1913).The Timaeus and the Critias — Thomas TaylorThomas Taylor's Neoplatonic English translation of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, with Taylor's introductions and notes.