Ancient Philosophy - Primary Resources

Presocratics: Since so many of their writings are fragmentary, the following (compendium) of their works is recommended: Curd, Patricia. A Presocratics Reader (2nd Edition), Indianapolis: Hackett, 2011

Parmenides: On Nature

Plato: Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, and Theaetetus

Aristotle: Categories, Physics, Posterior Analytics I.1–6, 18, 33–4; II.1–2, 8–11, 19, On the Soul, Metaphysics I–IX, XII, Nicomachean Ethics, and Eudemian Ethics

Cicero: On Obligations

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Seneca: Letters from a Stoic and Letters to Lucilius

Epictetus: Discourses I–II

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Plotinus: The Enneads