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[The previous list, in text form:] | |||
'''Pre-socratics:''' | |||
*Various - ''Early Greek Philosophy'' | |||
*Kenneth Sylvan Guthre - ''The Pythagorean Sourcebook and library'' | |||
*Charles H.Kahn - ''The art and thought of Heraclitus'' | |||
*Parmenides of Elea - ''Fragments'' | |||
*David Gallop - ''Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments'' | |||
*John Dillon, Tania Gergel - ''The Greek sophists'' | |||
*Empedocles - ''The extant Fragments'' | |||
*''Various links'' | |||
**http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics | |||
**http://www.heraclitusfragments.com | |||
**http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/ | |||
'''On Socrates:''' | |||
*I.F.Stone - ''The trial of Socrates'' | |||
*Aristophanes - ''The clouds'' | |||
*Charles H.Kahn - ''Plato and the Socratic dialogue'' | |||
*Karl R. Popper ''- The open society and its enemies'' | |||
*Gail Fine - ''Plato on knowledge and forms.'' | |||
'''By plato:''' | |||
(Note made by Isabelle: later translations are usually more accessible. I AM not a fan of Jowett. Since she composed this list I thought it necessary to add this) | |||
*Early Works: | |||
**Apology | |||
**Crito | |||
**Euthyphro (holiness, the Euthyphro dilemma) | |||
**Ion | |||
**Laches (courage) | |||
**Protagoras (the teachability of virtue) | |||
**Gorgias (rethoric vs. philosophy) | |||
**Meno (virtue, Meno's paradox) | |||
*Middle Works | |||
**Parmenides - Forms | |||
**Phaedo (the death of socrates, the afterlife) | |||
**Phaedrus (love and rethoric) | |||
**Republic (politics, the state and the soul) | |||
**Symposium (true love, the 'Ladder of Love') | |||
**Theaetetus (knowledge) | |||
*Later Works | |||
**Critias (Atlantis= | |||
**Sophist (more on Forms) | |||
**Timaeus (the purpose of the universe) | |||
'''On Aristotle''' | |||
*David M.Balme - ''Aristotle on Nature and Living Things: Philosophical and Historical Studies'' | |||
*Cristopher Shields - ''Aristotle'' | |||
*David Furley - ''From Aristotle to Augustine'' | |||
'''By Aristotle''' | |||
(Another note by Isabelle: Oxford translations are best) | |||
*The Nicomachean Ethics (virtue ethics, leads into Politics) | |||
*Rethoric | |||
*Metaphysics | |||
*Poetics | |||
*Politics | |||
'''Cynicism''' | |||
*Farrand Sayre - ''Diogenes of Sinope: A study of Greek cynicism'' | |||
*R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé -''The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy '' | |||
'''Epicureanism ''' | |||
* | |||
*James Warren - ''The Cambridge's companion to Epicureanism'' | |||
*Eugene O'connor - ''The essential Epicurus'' | |||
*Lucretius - ''The nature of things'' | |||
'''Stoicism''' | |||
(Isabella specified Penguin Classics) | |||
*Seneca - ''Letters from a stoic'' | |||
*Epictetus - ''Discourses and selected writings'' | |||
*Marcus Aurelius - ''Meditations'' | |||
'''Skepticism''' | |||
*Norman Maccoll - ''The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus'' | |||
*Sextus Empiricus - ''Outlines of Pyrrhonism'' | |||
*Richard T. Wallis - ''Neoplatonism and Gnosticism'' | |||
*John Gregory - ''The neoplatonists'' | |||
*Plotinus - ''The enneads'' | |||
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- Susan Cooper - The dark is rising
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- R.A.Salvatore - Homeland
- Philip Pullman - His dark materials
Coming of age
- Glen Cook The - swordbearer
- Robin Hobb - Assassin's apprentice
- J.V.Jones - The Baker's boy
- Rebecca Bradley - Lady in gil
Historic Fantasy
- David Gemell - Troy
- Guy Gavriel Kay - The lions of Al-rassan
- J.Gregory Keyes - Newton's cannon
- R.A.MacAvoy - Damiano
- T.H.White - The once and future king
- Gene Wolfe - Latro in the mist
- George R.R - Martin Fevre dream
- John M.Ford - The dragon waiting
- Mary Gentle - A secret History
Mistery
- Steven Brust - The book of Jhereg
- Jim Butcher - Storm Front
- Glen Cook - Sweet silver blues
- Barry Hughart - Bridge of birds
- Matthew Hughes - Majestrum
Comic Fantasy
- Terry Pratchet - Carpe Jugulum
- Christopher Moore - Lamb
- Peter David - Sir Apropos of nothing
- Mary Gentle - Grunts
- William Goldman - The princess bride
Weird
- H.P.Lovecraft - At the mountains of madness
- William Hope Hodgson - The house in the borderland
- Clark Ashton Smith - The emperor of dreams
- Teff Vandermeer - City of saints and madmen
- China Miéville - Perdido street station
Mythic
- Roger Zelazny - Creatures of light and darkness
- Mickey Zucker Reichert - The last of the Renshai
- Jonh Myers Myers - Silverlock
- Steven Brust - To reign in hell
- Poul Anderson - The broken sword
- Michael Scott Rogan - The anvil of ice
Alternate world
- Stephen Donaldson - The chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the unbeliever
- Julian May - The many-coloured land
- Stephen R.Donaldson - The mirror in her dreams
- Stephen R. Lawhead - The paradise war
- Poul Anderson - Three heards and three lions
- Roger Zelazny - The great book of Amber
Old School
- George MacDonal - Phantastes
- E.R.Eddison - The worm Ouroboros
- Lord Dunsany - The king of elfland's daughter
- Ernest Bramah - The wallet of Kail Lung
- David Lindsay - A voyage to Arcturus
- Charles G. Finney - The circus of Dr.Lao
- Mikhail Bulgakov - The master and Margarita
- Mervyn Peake - Titus groan
Miscellaneous
- Paul Edwin Zimmer - The lost prince
- David Gemell - Legend
- C.S.Friedman - Black Sun Rising
- K.J.Parker - Shadow
- Kate Elliot - King's dragon
- Michael A.Stackpole - Talion revenant
- Matthew Woodring Stover - Heroes die
- Gene Wolfe - The shadow of the torturer
- Tim Powers - The Anubis gates
- John Marco - The Jackal of Nar
- Andrzej Sapkowsku - Blood of elves
- Ken Grimwood - Replay
- Glen Cook - Chronicles of the black company
- Patricia A. Mckillip - The riddle-master of Hed
- Sean Ruselss - The initiate brother
- Brent Weeks - The way of shadows
- Jeniffer Fallon - The immortal prince
- John Crowley - Little, big
- Catherynne M. Valente - In the night garden
- M. John Harrison - Viriconium
- Jack Vance - Lyonesse
Philosophy
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Classical
[The previous list, in text form:]
Pre-socratics:
- Various - Early Greek Philosophy
- Kenneth Sylvan Guthre - The Pythagorean Sourcebook and library
- Charles H.Kahn - The art and thought of Heraclitus
- Parmenides of Elea - Fragments
- David Gallop - Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments
- John Dillon, Tania Gergel - The Greek sophists
- Empedocles - The extant Fragments
- Various links
On Socrates:
- I.F.Stone - The trial of Socrates
- Aristophanes - The clouds
- Charles H.Kahn - Plato and the Socratic dialogue
- Karl R. Popper - The open society and its enemies
- Gail Fine - Plato on knowledge and forms.
By plato:
(Note made by Isabelle: later translations are usually more accessible. I AM not a fan of Jowett. Since she composed this list I thought it necessary to add this)
- Early Works:
- Apology
- Crito
- Euthyphro (holiness, the Euthyphro dilemma)
- Ion
- Laches (courage)
- Protagoras (the teachability of virtue)
- Gorgias (rethoric vs. philosophy)
- Meno (virtue, Meno's paradox)
- Middle Works
- Parmenides - Forms
- Phaedo (the death of socrates, the afterlife)
- Phaedrus (love and rethoric)
- Republic (politics, the state and the soul)
- Symposium (true love, the 'Ladder of Love')
- Theaetetus (knowledge)
- Later Works
- Critias (Atlantis=
- Sophist (more on Forms)
- Timaeus (the purpose of the universe)
On Aristotle
- David M.Balme - Aristotle on Nature and Living Things: Philosophical and Historical Studies
- Cristopher Shields - Aristotle
- David Furley - From Aristotle to Augustine
By Aristotle
(Another note by Isabelle: Oxford translations are best)
- The Nicomachean Ethics (virtue ethics, leads into Politics)
- Rethoric
- Metaphysics
- Poetics
- Politics
Cynicism
- Farrand Sayre - Diogenes of Sinope: A study of Greek cynicism
- R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé -The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy
Epicureanism
- James Warren - The Cambridge's companion to Epicureanism
- Eugene O'connor - The essential Epicurus
- Lucretius - The nature of things
Stoicism
(Isabella specified Penguin Classics)
- Seneca - Letters from a stoic
- Epictetus - Discourses and selected writings
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Skepticism
- Norman Maccoll - The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus
- Sextus Empiricus - Outlines of Pyrrhonism
- Richard T. Wallis - Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
- John Gregory - The neoplatonists
- Plotinus - The enneads
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