This seventh edition of Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers.

Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BEFORE SOCRATES The Milesians Thales Anaximander Anaximenes Three Solitary Figures Pythagoras Xenophanes Heraclitus The Monists Parmenides Zeno of Elea The Pluralists Empedocles Anaxagoras Democritus (and Leucippus) Three Sophists Protagoras Gorgias Critias EPILOGUE I: TWO VIEWS OF ATHENS Thucydides Pericles' Funeral Oration The Melian Conference EPILOGUE II: ASPASIA SOCRATES AND PLATO Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo Gorgias (482e-484c) Meno Symposium (172a-173b, 189c-193d; 201d-223d) Republic (Book I, 336b-349b, 350d-354b; Book II, 357a-362c, 368e-376e; Book III, 386b-388a, 412b-417b; Book IV, 427d-445e; Book V, 449-462e, 469c-474a; Book VI-VII, 502c-521b; Book VIII, 562a-563e; Book IX, 580d-583a) Parmenides (127a-135d) Theaetetus (selections) Timaeus (27d-34b) Laws (selections) ARISTOTLE Categories (Chapters 1-5) On Interpretation (Chapters 1-9) Posterior Analytics (Book I, 1-2; Book II, 19) Physics (Book II complete) Metaphysics (Book I complete; Book IV, 1-4, 7; Book XII complete) On the Soul (Book II, 1-3; Book III, 4-5) Nicomachean Ethics (Book I-II; Book III, 1-5; Book IV, 3; Books VI-VII; Book X, 6-8, 9) Politics (Book I, 1-2; Book III, 6-9; Book IV, 11-12; Book VII, 3b-4, 9) Poetics (Chapter 6) HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY Epicurus Letter to Herodotus Letter to Menoeceus Principal Doctrines Lucretius On the Nature of Things (Book Two, 216-284; Book Three, selections through 831) The Early Stoa Zeno of Citium (selections from Diogenes Laertius) Cleanthes-Hymn to Zeus Epictetus Handbook (Enchiridion) Marcus Aurelius Meditations (Book IV) Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1-13) Plotinus and Porphyry Life of Plotinus (Chapters 1-2) Enneads (I, Tractate 6; V, Tractate 1, 1-12)