Resource Guide:
Ancient Philosophy
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Philosophy
- Philosophy, Ancient
- Philosophers
- Philosophers, Greece
- Greece, Religion
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Socrates
- Epicurus
- Stoics
- Skeptics
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Journal of Philosophy
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Philosopher
- Philosophical Quarterly
- Philosophical Review
- Philosophy
- Mind
- Nous
- Helios
- Phronesis
- Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
- Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
- American Journal of Philology
- Classical Philology
- Classical Quarterly
- Greece and Rome
- Classical Review
- Polis
- Studies in the History of Ethics (SHE)
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy | Credo Reference |
| Encyclopedia of Ethics | Credo Reference |
| Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia | Credo Reference |
| Who’s Who in Classical Mythology, Routledge | Credo Reference |
| The Encyclopedia of philosophy | REF B 41 E5 |
| The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy | REF B 41 .C35 1995 |
| Dictionary of philosophy | REF B 41 .D53 1983 |
| The Oxford dictionary of philosophy | REF B 41 .B53 1994 |
| The structured self in Hellenistic and Roman thought | BD 450 .G4892 2009 |
| When souls had wings: pre-mortal existence in Western thought | BL 290 .G58 2009 |
| The Oxford handbook of Plato | B 395 .O94 2008 |
| The development of ethics: from Socrates to the Reformation | BJ 71 .I79 2007 |
| What is good and why: the ethics of well-being | BJ 1401 .K73 2007 |
| The brute within: appetitive desire in Plato and Aristotle | B 395 .L66 2006 |
| The Blackwell guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics | B 430 .B53 2005 |
| Knowledge, nature, and the good: essays on ancient philosophy | B 171 .C684 2004 |
| Stoicism: traditions and transformations | B 528 .S6785 2004 |
| The Blackwell guide to ancient philosophy | B 171 .B65 2003 |
| Hellenistic and early modern philosophy | B 801 .H45 2003 |
| The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy | B 111 .C36 2003 |
| Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life | B 563 .L66 2002 |
| Plato’s utopia recast: his later ethics and politics | B 398 .E8 B63 2002 |
| Ancient philosophy: a very short introduction | B 111 .A56 2000 |
| The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy | B 188 .C35 1999 |
| Socrates, Pleasure, and Value | B 318 .E8 R83 1999 |
| Platonic ethics, old and new | B 398 .E8 A56 1998 |
| Reason and emotion | BJ 161 .C66 1998 |
| The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220 | B 517 .D54 1996 |
| God in Greek philosophy to the time of Socrates | B 188 .H17 |