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This is a picture of the Temple of Athena at Priene, just up the route from Miletus, in Ionia (the due west declension of modernistic Turkey). Note that each cavalcade is built out of several stone cylinders - someone from Miletus was very interested in that building technique, equally we'll see. This terrific image and many more are bachelor for browsing in the Perseus building collection.

Readings for PHIL 301

This page lists form readings both from our textbooks and from sources beyond the textbooks. Some of these readings are required and some are optional. They include print reserves, electronic reserves, web pages, journal (=periodical) manufactures from the stacks in Fenwick Library, manufactures in electronic journal databases, and books in the GMU libraries.

Some of the materials I take listed here are supposed to be available on-line. If yous endeavor to admission them and discover they are not there, let me know as before long as possible.

Note: I will update this page if I discover additional items that I may place on reserve or items that become available every bit journal databases are upgraded.

Getting started:
General groundwork on the first philosophers of ancient Hellenic republic

Accessing electronic journals and electronic versions of print journals

Accessing impress reserves and e-reserves (electronic reserves)

Listing of readings

Due August 26 - 28
1. McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates Ch. 1, 3, four,  and v. Required.

2. "Anaximander'southward Columns Page" . Required (really brusk). (Clicking on the championship volition take you to the reading.)

iii. "Illustrations of early Greek mythological views of the universe" and "Understanding Anaximander's Astronomy and Geography: Images." These images were shown in form; here is an opportunity to get a better look at them. Because these files includes copies of copyrighted material, they are only bachelor through the Class Content tab of our Blackboard page. Required.

4. Christos Evangeliou, When Greece Met Africa. Binghamton, NY: Establish for Global Cultural Studies, 1994. On eastward-reserve. Optional.

5. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, "Legends of the Greek Lawgivers." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies xix (1978): 199-209. On eastward-reserve. Optional.

6. Gerard Naddaf, The Greek Concept of Nature. Albany, NY: Land University of New York Press, 2005. Optional. Bachelor in Fenwick Library.

7. Thomas Worthen, "Herodotos' Report on Thales' Eclipse," online article in Electronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics, vol. three no. 7, May 1997 . Optional . (Clicking on the championship will take you to the article.)

8. Gerald Feinberg, "Physics and the Thales Problem." Journal of Philosophy 63, no. 1 (1966): 5-xvi. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

nine. D.R. Dicks, "Thales." Classical Quarterly 9 (1959): 294-309. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

x. Dmitri Panchenko, "Thales and the Origin of Theoretical Reasoning." Configurations 1 (1993): 387-414. Available on-line through Projection Muse. Recommended.

eleven. S.H. Rosen, "Thales." Arion 1 (1962): 48-64. Available on-line via JSTOR. Optional.

12. Aryeh Finkelberg, "Anaximander'southward Formulation of the Apeiron." Phronesis 38 (1993): 229-256. Available on-line via IngentaConnect and via JSTOR. Optional.

xiii. Gerard Naddaf, "On the Origin of Anaximander'southward Cosmological Model." Journal of the History of Ideas 59 (1998): 1-28. Available online via JSTOR and via Project Muse. Recommended but not required.

14. Dirk Couprie, "The Visualization of Anaximander's Astronomy." Apeiron 28 (1995): 159-182. Available online via JSTOR. Recommended but not required. Note: There are at to the lowest degree two unlike journals with the title Apeiron. Be certain to employ JSTOR to access this commodity.

fifteen. Dirk Couprie, "Anaximander's Discovery of Infinite." In A. Preus, ed., Essays in Aboriginal Greek Philosophy VI: Before Plato. SUNY Serial in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. Recommended.

xvi. Robert Hahn, Anaximander and the Architects. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. On impress reserve at the JC Library. Optional. A great resource if y'all're interested in Anaximander; Greek, Egyptian, Well-nigh Eastern, or North African technology; archæology; etc.

17. Dirk Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf, Anaximander in Context. SUNY Series in Aboriginal Greek Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Printing, 2003. On print reserve at the JC Library. Recommended.

18.  Joyce Engmann, "Catholic Justice in Anaximander." Phronesis 36 (1991): 1-25. Available online via JSTOR. Optional.

19. Optional, though it isn't reading: The Aperion Project is a collaboration that creates music based on themes from ancient cultures and pre-Socratic philosophy, among other inspirations. Their master web site is hither; the piece that inspired me to ask their permission to link to their site is "Anaximander's Lament," found as a gratuitous and legal download hither. Savour! Thank you are due to Brandon Rizzo and the Aperion Projection for their music, and to Mr. Rizzo for permission to link to his pages. (Note: Both Mr. Rizzo and I realize that the Greek give-and-take απειρον, alpha-pi-epsilon-iota-rho-omicron-nu, is properly transliterated every bit apeiron, non aperion.)

Due September two
i. McKirahan, Philosophy Earlier Socrates Ch. 6 and 7. Required.

2. Ane or both of these descriptions of the felting process:
Either Gleason's Fine Woolies felting folio OR Outback Fibers Starting time Felt-Making Instructions page (includes video). Viewing either one (your choice) is required.

3. Daniel Graham, "A New Await at Anaximenes." History of Philosophy Quarterly xx (2003): i-20. Bachelor online via JSTOR. Recommended simply not required.

Due September 4
1. McKirahan, Philosophy Earlier Socrates Ch. seven and nine. Required.

2. J.H. Lesher, Xenophanes of Colophon. On reserve in the JC Library. Optional.

3. R. Vaas, "Time Before Time: Classifications of universes in contemporary cosmology, and how to avoid the antinomy of the beginning and eternity of the world." Optional. On the relevance of ancient Greek accounts for understanding scientific problems of today - issues modern philosophy did not address, according to Vaas.

Due September 9
one. McKirahan, Philosophy Earlier Socrates Ch. 9 and x. Required.

2. Hugly and Sayward, "Did the Greeks Discover the Irrationals?" Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Plant of Philosophy 74 (upshot 288) (1999): 169-176. Available through JSTOR. Required.

three. Charles Kahn, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001. In Fenwick Library. Optional.

four. Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

5. Crocker, "Pythagorean Mathematics and Music." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 22.two (1963): 189-198 (Role I) and 22.3 (1964): 325-335 (Part Ii). Available through JSTOR. Part I is recommended; Part II is optional.

6. Christoph Riedweg, Pythagoras. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. On print reserve at the JC Library. Optional.

Due September 11
1. McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates Ch. 10. Required.

2. R. Singh, "Herakleitos and the Law of Nature." Journal of the History of Ideas 24 (1963): 457-472. Required if yous don't read #iii below; optional if you practice. Bachelor via JSTOR.

iii. H. Granger, "Heraclitus' Quarrel with Polymathy and 'Historiê'." Transactions of the American Philological Association 134 (2004): 235-261. Required if yous don't read #2 in a higher place; optional if you do. Bachelor via JSTOR, ProQuest Inquiry Library, and Project Muse.

4. Charles Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. On impress reserve at JC Library. Optional.

Due September 16-18
1. McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates Ch. xi, 12, 15. Required.

2. "Notes on the Eleatics (Parmenides, Zeno, and Melissus)." Required. (Clicking on the championship will accept you to the reading.)

iii. Another translation of the fragments of Parmenides. Required. (Clicking on the title will take you to the reading.)

four. Patricia Curd, "Parmenidean Monism." Phronesis 36 (1991): 241-264. Available online via JSTOR.  Recommended.

5. Patricia Curd, The Legacy of Parmenides, 2d edition. Las Vegas, NV: Parmenides Publishing, 2004. On impress reserve at the JC Library. Optional.

six. Malcolm Schofield, "Did Parmenides Find Eternity?" Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 52 (1970): 113-135. On e-reserve. Optional.

7. Arnold Hermann, To Retrieve Similar God. Parmenides Press, 2004. Optional.

eight. North. Booth, "Did Melissus Believe in Incorporeal Beingness?" American Periodical of Philology 79 (1958): 61-65. Available on-line through JSTOR.  Optional.

nine. F.A. Shamsi, "A Annotation on Aristotle, Physics 239b5-7: What Exactly Was Zeno'southward Argument of the Arrow?" Aboriginal Philosophy 14 (1994): 51-72. Available online via Philosophy Documentation Middle Collection. Recommended.

x. Alba Papa-Grimaldi, "Why Mathematical Solutions of Zeno's Paradoxes Miss the Point." Review of Metaphysics 50 (1996): 299-314. Available on-line through JSTOR,  Expanded Academic ASAP, and Infotrac Onefile. Optional.

xi. Trish Glazebrook, "Zeno Confronting Mathematical Physics." Journal of the History of Ideas 62 (2001): 193-210. Available online via JSTOR. Recommended.

Due Sept. 24 - 30
1. McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates Chapters xiii, 14, 16, and 18. Required.

two. Simon Trepanier, "The Structure of Empedocles' Fragment 17." Essays in Philosophy 1 (2000):  1-sixteen. Bachelor online through Directory of Open up Access Journals. Required.

iii. "Notes on Anaxagoras and Philolaus." Required. (Clicking on the title volition take you to the reading.)

4. D.Due west. Graham and East. Hintz, "Anaxagoras and the Solar Eclipse of 478 BC." Apeiron forty (2007): 319-344. Required. Available online via JSTOR.

5. John Sisko, "Anaxagoras Between Parmenides and Plato." Philosophy Compass v (2010): 432-442. Bachelor online via Wiley Online Library. Recommended.

6. John Sisko, "Anaxagoras on Matter, Motion, and Multiple Worlds." Philosophy Compass v (2010): 443-454. Available online via Wiley. Highly recommended.

7. Ava Chitwood, "The Decease of Empedocles." American Journal of Philology 107 (1986): 175-191. Available on-line through JSTOR. Recommended.

viii. M.R. Wright, Empedocles: The Extant Fragments. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1995. On print reserve at the JC Library. Optional.

9. J.H. Lesher, "Listen's Cognition and Powers of Control in Anaxagoras DK B12." Phronesis xl (1995): 125-142. Available online via JSTOR. Highly recommended (don't worry nearly the Greek words; Lesher translates them).

10. Patricia Curd, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. Toronto: University of Toronto Printing, 2007. On print reserve at the JC Library. Optional.

xi. Carl Huffman, Philolaus of Croton. Cambridge: Cambridge Academy Press, 1993. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

12. Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Academy Press, 1972. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

xiii. Carl Huffman, "The Role of Number in Philolaus' Philosophy." Phronesis 33 (1988): ane-xxx. Available online through JSTOR. Recommended.

Due October 2 - nine
one. Plato, Euthyphro (in Five Dialogues). Required.

2. "Notes on Plato's Euthyphro." Required. (Clicking on the title will take y'all to the reading.)

three. Marlo Lewis, "An Estimation of Plato'southward Euthyphro: Function I." Interpretation 12 (1984): 225-259. On eastward-reserve. At present also available in the online database Freely Accessible Social Scientific discipline Journals. Recommended. Note: There are several journals titled Interpretation; be sure to access this i either via e-reserve or via Freely Accessible Social Science Journals.

iv. ______. "An Interpretation of Plato'south Euthyphro: Part Two." Estimation 13 (1985): 33-65. On east-reserve. Now also bachelor in the online database Freely Accessible Social Scientific discipline Journals.  Recommended. Note: In that location are several journals titled Interpretation; be sure to access this one either via eastward-reserve or via Freely Attainable Social Science Journals.

5. If you have never studied Plato earlier, you may notice it helpful to read the dialogues Apology of Socrates and Crito in V Dialogues.

Due October 9 - 30
1. Plato, Phaedo (in Five Dialogues). Required.

two. Notes on Plato'southward Phaedo 70a-77e. Required.

3. Michael Davis, "Socrates' Pre-Socratism." Review of Metaphysics 33 (1980): pages 559-577. Available online via JSTOR. Recommended but non required.

four. James Arieti, "A Dramatic Interpretation of Plato'southward Phaedo." Illinois Classical Studies eleven (1986): 129-142. Available online via JSTOR. Recommended.

5. Diskin Clay, "Plato'due south First Words." Yale Classical Studies 29 (1992): 113-129. On eastward-reserve. Optional.

6. Charles Griswold, "East Pluribus Unum? On the Ideal 'Corpus.'" Ancient Philosophy nineteen (1999): 361-397. Bachelor online via Philosophy Documentation Center Collection. Highly recommended that yous at to the lowest degree skim this.

  Due October 30 - Nov twenty
ane. Your primary text, Aristotle's Metaphysics Book A, also known as Metaphysics Book I, can be constitute by following this link and clicking on Book I. This translation is by the smashing Aristotle scholar W.D. Ross. Required.

2. Here are some notes I have prepared on Metaphysics Book I, Chapters i-2. Required.

3. Here are some further notes I accept prepared on Metaphysics Book I, Chapter iii. Required.

Due November 20 - December four
ane. Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe. Required.

2. McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates Chapter 16. Required.

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General background on the offset philosophers of ancient Greece

1. G.Due south. Kirk, J.E. Raven, and K. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, 2d ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

2. Jonathan Barnes, The Presocratic Philosophers, revised ed. New York and London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. On impress reserve at JC Library. Optional.

3. Aryeh Finkelberg, "On the History of the Greek KOSMOS." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 98 (1998): 103-136. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

4. M.L. Westward, "Three Presocratic Cosmologies." Classical Quarterly 13 (1963): 154-176. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

5. R. Martin, "The 7 Sages every bit Performers of Wisdom." Pages 198-127 in Cultural Poetics in Aboriginal Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge Academy Press, 1993. In Fenwick Library. Optional.

6. Daniel Graham, Explaining the Creation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. On print reserve at the JC Library. Optional.

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Accessing electronic journals and electronic versions of print journals

ane. A "journal," in the sense in which the term is used in academic inquiry, is a periodical: a publication that comes out ane or more times a twelvemonth to present brusk pieces (articles) of research past scholars. To see which journals have issues available to GMU electronically, go to the GMU Library primary folio, http://library.gmu.edu. Click on 'Articles & more' (left side of the page) and follow instructions from there.

2. To find the articles mentioned in the list of weekly readings in a higher place, either:
(a) Go to the 'Articles & more' search boxes and enter the proper name of the database in which the article appears, so get to that database and enter the title and author of the commodity; OR
(b) Become to the 'Articles & more' search boxes, and enter the journal championship (non the article title) in the 'Search for full-text, electronic journals and publications' box. Click on the database title (JSTOR, ProQuest, etc.) that appears, and browse to reach the issue of the journal that you desire.

3. Some databases that volition be very useful for this grade are JSTOR, ProQuest Research Library,Project Muse, Expanded Bookish ASAP, and Infotrac Onefile. Many articles I have listed here tin be found on ane or the other of these databases, every bit noted. To attain them, go to the GMU Library chief folio, http://library.gmu.edu. Click on 'Articles & more,' then on the starting time alphabetic character of the database you want to search ('j' for JSTOR, etc.). Whorl down to what you want and follow instructions.
        Y'all tin can also try browsing databases past subject from the aforementioned 'Manufactures & more' screen.
        If y'all're trying to log onto GMU'due south periodical databases from off-campus, you lot will be asked to enter your GMU username and countersign - the same ones you apply for your GMU email account. (That should not happen on-campus.)

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Accessing electronic reserves ("e-reserves") and print reserves

1. What are print reserves, and what are e-reserves?

• Impress reserves are printed books that instructors accept put onto reserve at the JC Library. These will exist available to be consulted for two hours at a fourth dimension, to brand sure that all interested students get a chance to consult them.
• Electronic reserves (e-reserves) are electronic copies of volume chapters, or of journal manufactures non currently available via GMU's journal databases.
• Note that electronic reserves are therefore not the same thing equally electronic journals.

2. To observe the print reserves for PHIL 301, go to http://library.gmu.edu and click on 'Course Reserves.'

three. So click on 'reserve catalog.'

4. Using the drop-down box marked Instructor, select Cherubin and PHIL 301. This volition  bring you to the list of print reserves. You will discover the books themselves at the reserve desk in the Johnson Center Library.

v. To access the e-reserves, go to our PHIL 301 Blackboard page.

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*Annotation: As mentioned in class, a better term for what we will be studying is "ancient Mediterranean philosophy." Aboriginal Mediterranean philosophy does form part of the history of Western philosophy, but information technology besides forms part of the history of some non-Western philosophy: Islamic philosophy, for example, draws upon and farther develops Greek philosophy. As well, there was plenty of interaction between the Greeks, the Romans, and the Egyptians and E Africans. In improver, there are some conceptual similarities betwixt Greek and Sanskrit thought. So, what you learn in this course will exist of use in other courses on east.yard. the Middle East, the Virtually East, North Africa, East Africa, sometimes Southern asia, etc.

Information technology is as well helpful to remember that the Greeks and Romans did not run across themselves as part of a "Western" culture or civilization; the notion of a "Western" civilization or civilization did not be. Moreover, geographically speaking, the Greeks and Romans saw themselves equally at or shut to the middle: there was some disagreement among ancient geographers, just they tended to put the center of the globe's surface either at the Nile Delta or at Delphi (in Greece). (dorsum)

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