Free Greek Philosophy Ebooks and Etexts
Summary: This page provides a rich collection of free ebooks and etexts on Greek philosophy, featuring the works of Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, Socrates, and other classical thinkers. It includes complete texts, translations, historical studies, and scholarly commentaries on ancient Greek thought, cosmology, ethics, and logic. Ideal for students and researchers, the collection highlights the origins of Western philosophy and the enduring questions that shaped intellectual history.
Greek Philosophers
As it turns out, nearly all of the various cosmologies proposed by the early Greek philosophers are profoundly and demonstrably false, but this does not diminish their importance. For even if later philosophers summarily rejected the answers they provided, they could not escape their questions: What is life? From where does everything come? Of what does it really consist? How do we explain the plurality of things found in nature? And why can we describe them with a singular mathematics?
And the method the Greek philosophers followed in forming and transmitting their answers became just as important as the questions they asked. The pre-Socratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations for the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations. In other words they depended on reason and observation to illuminate the true nature of the world around them, and they used rational argument to advance their views to others. And though philosophers have argued at length about the relative weights that reason and observation should have, for two and a half millennia they have basically united in the use of the very method first used by the pre-Socratics. 1*
E-texts Greek Philosophers
Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Heraclitus A lecture.
Description of Greece by Pausanias
Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 May 2003
Hellenistic History and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), ed. by Peter Green
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus transl. Hastings Crossley (English)
A Selection
from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion transl. George Long (English)
A Smaller History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith
Thucydides Mythistoricus by Francis M. Cornford
Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) by Gregory Crane
The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta, Excavated and Described by Members of the British School at Athens, 1906-1910, ed. by Richard McGillivray Dawkins
The Secret History by Procopius of Caesarea, trans. by Richard Atwater.
The Chronographia by Michael Psellus, trans. by Edgar Robert Ashton Sewster
Epicurean Philosophy Online Another comprehensive Epicurean web site, maintained by Erik Anderson.
El Jardín A Spanish-language Epicurean web site maintained by Sergio Sotomayor Prat.
Epicuro An Italian-language Epicurean web site maintained by Michele Pinto.
Epicurisme An Epicurean web page in Dutch.
Perseus under PhiloLogic University of Chicago
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