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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook:
Hellenistic World
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all contents of all sections.
Contents
The Hellenistic World
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Alexander (356-323 BCE)
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The Hellenistic States
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Art and Architecture
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Literature
- Apollonius of Rhodes (c.295-after 247 BCE): Argonautica [At OMACL][Full
Text]
- Quintus Smyrnaeus (fl. f4th Cent CE): The
Fall of Troy [At OMACL]
- Idyll
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Theocritus (c.320-c.260 BCE): Idylls 12
and 29 (trans. Edward Carpenter)[At this site]
- Theocritus (c.320-c.260 BCE): Fifteenth Idyll, c. 250
BCE [At this Site]
- Novels
- Biography
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): On
Biography, from Life of Alexander [At CSUN]
- Theon (4th Cent CE): On Biography [At CSUN]
The last known member of the Museum at Alexandria; father of Hypatia)
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Philosophy
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See 2ND Study Guide [At
Brooklyn College]
- (Pseudo)-Plutarch: Des Opinions des philosophes [At this Site]
Full text of a French translation.
- Cynics
- 2ND Diogenes of Sinope, Antisthenes, Demonax, Menippus [IEP Articles]
- Diogenes Laërtius: The Lives and Opinions
of Eminent Philosophers Book VI: The Cynics [Antisthenes, Diogenes, Monimus,
Onesicritus, Crates, Metrocles, Hipparchia, Menippus, Menedemus.][At this Site]
- Antisthenes (c.445-c.360 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (c.400-325 BCE)
- Crates (c.365-285 BCE)
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Diogenes Laertius (3rd Cent. BCE): Life of Hipparchia from Lives, Book VI. 96-98 [At Diotima]
- Epicureans
- 2ND Epicurus, Lucretius [IEP Articles]
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Diogenes Laertius (3rd Cent. CE): Lives
of Eminent Philosophers X: Epicurus [At Epicurus]
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Epicurus (342-270 BCE) : Letter to Menoecius,
From Digenes Laertius (3rd Cent. CE), Lives, [At Internet Archive, from Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy]
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Epicurus (342-270 BCE): Principle Doctrines,
From Digenes Laertius (3rd Cent. CE), Lives, [At Epicurus.net]
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Epicurus (342-270 BCE): Maxims [At
Then Again]
- Lucretius (98-c.55 BCE): On
the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) [At MIT][Full Text][Chapter files] or
in
Latin [At Latin Library]
One of the greatest Latin poems, and the most extended ancient source on Epicureanism.
See 2ND
Study Guide [At Brooklyn
College]
- Lucretius (98-c.55 BCE): The Nature of Things [At
this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): De Finibus
Bonorum et Malorum [At Epicurus]
-
WEB Epicurus.info
Another site with all the main texts.
- WEB The Philodemus
Project [AT UCLA]
Based on a library of Epicurean books, many by Philodemus, found at Pompei.
- Stoics
- 2ND Stoicism, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, [IEP Articles]
- Diogenes Laërtius: The
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Book VII: The Stoics [Zeno, Ariston,
Herillus, Dionysius, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus] [At this Site]
- Cleanthes (331-232 BCE): Prayer to
Zeus Stobaeus, Eclogae, I, 1, 12)[At enteract.com]
- Stoic Source Texts [At CSUN]
- 2ND Stoicism [Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy]
- 2ND Zeno of Citium (c335-c262 BCE) [At
AOL]
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2ND Zeno of Citium (c335-c262
BCE)[Modern Account][At Geocities]
- Cleanthes (331-232 BCE)
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2ND Chrysippus (280 BC-206
BCE)[Modern Account] [At Internet Archive]
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius (b.121-r.161-d.180 CE): Meditations,
167 CE [At this Site]
- Skeptics
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Religion
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Science and Medicine
- Hellenic & Hellenistic Science [At This Site]
Contains: Hippocrates, Aphorisms, c. Fifth
Century BCE, Archimedes, Letter to Dositheus,
c. 220 BCE, Galen, Medicine, c. Mid-Second
Century CE
- Critical Thought
- Theoretical Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Engineering
- Travel: Geography
Geographical reports by Greek and Roman authors represent a certain approach to
knowledge collection which is important in our understanding of their intellectual
approach.
- Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria [At
this Site]
From Herodotus.
- Ancient Accounts of Arabia [At this Site]
Accounts from Herodotus, Strabo, Ammianus Marcellinus
- Accounts of Ancient Mauretania, c. 430 BCE- 550 CE [At
this Site]
From Herodotus, Strabo, and Procopius of Caesarea
- Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, Accounts of Meroe, Kush,
and Axumc. 430 BCE - 550 CE, [At this Site]
From Herodotus, Strabo, Dio Cassius, the King of Axum, and and Procopius of Caesarea.
- Greek Reports of India & Aryavarta [At this Site]
From Herodotus.
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The Periplus [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
Written by a Greek resident of Alexandria in Egypt during the first century BCE, this text
is one of the oldest surviving accounts of the countries on Africa's east coast. A map
gives some idea of the size and scope of Africa and of the author's journey.
- The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the
Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century, complete, [At this Site]
- Strabo: Geography: Book XV: On India [At
this Site]
- Arrian: Anabasis Alexandri: Book VIII (Indica) [At this Site]
- Pliny: Natural History 6.96-111. (On India) [At
this Site]
- India and the Mediterranean: Bibliography [At this Site]
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Modern
Perspectives on Hellenistic Greece
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NOTES:
Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.
The date of inception was
4/8/1998.
Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location].
Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site].
WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
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