So I'm just going to call this a "metaphysics" page, and be done
with the question of naming it. Now, since ancient inquiries into
that which is often reflected or prompted considerations pertinent
to the fields we now call natural science, ethics, religious
studies, political thought, and epistemology, this page will also
present some material relating to these topics.
As for whether this stuff is really deep, evil, and/or
scary...read it and find out.
If you've
come to this page seeking information about the MA program in
Philosophy at GMU, please click
here.
Parmenides
podcast
from
Christopher
Long's fabulous Digital Dialogues series - thanks to
Christopher Long for organizing this; and to him, Sara Brill, and
Jill Gordon for asking wonderful questions and enduring my
answers!
Hermeneutical
Principles:
Interpreting
ancient
Greek philosophy
Examples
of
Plagiarism
vs.
Examples of Legitimate Use of Material Written by Others
Perseus Project
Materials on Classical Antiquity: literature, art, architecture,
archaeology, history, Greek and Latin languages. Check out the
on-line edition of Liddell, Scott, Jones, A Greek-English
Lexicon, the atlas tools, and the large and growing
selection of Greek and Latin works in both the original languages
and English.
To read works by
well-known Greek writers such as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, [some]
Aristotle, and Pindar, click on "Collections," then "Greek and
Roman materials," then
scroll down to the author of your choice. Texts are available in
both Greek and English. (Some of the translations may seem
somewhat out-of-date, as they are largely from out-of-print
editions of the Loeb Classical Library.) If you're going to use a
translated text in your papers, it's better to get a fairly recent
and good translation. But for quick reference, or to look up the
Greek, Perseus is very handy to have.
To look up Greek
words, from the main page, click on "All search options" (top
right) then select "show" next to "Dictionary Entry Lookup."
Electronic
Resources
for Classicists
What the name says: links to texts, discussion groups, software
and more; usually but not always scholarly.
The
Stoa
Home of Demos, the Suda On Line, and Diotima (below), plus several
other web projects, the Stoa
Consortium presents "news, projects, and links for
digital classicists everywhere." Elegant, scholarly, and
responsible. Check for frequent updates on issues having to do
with online publishing, intellectual property, open-source
collections, and more.
Demos
A rich and rigorous project on classical Athenian democracy,
replete with scholarly essays, images, links to ancient texts and
secondary sources, an excellent glossary of relevant Greek terms,
and an ever-increasing complement of additional good things. The
site is easy to use, and its many hyperlinks are well-organized
and helpful. The site's own description is best: "Our goal is to
build a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that
will be useful to a wide audience. We hope to describe the
history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th
and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to
answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our
audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves." Truly kalon kagathon, Blackwell et
al.!
The Suda On Line
One thousand years in the making! The Suda is a
tenth-century CE work containing excerpts from and commentaries on
ancient philosophers. It's especially important as a resource for
the study of philosophers who lived before Plato.
George Mason University Department of Philosophy
The
Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy
This page has won praise around the world. It contains resources
in and links to all sorts of material pertaining to classical
(mostly Roman) antiquity. There is an excellent on-line library of
Latin texts here, along with links to discussion groups and
language tutorials. Salvete, Winkler and Carey!
Rogueclassicism
David Meadows' exciting classics blog: the ancient world lives!
(And I do mean 'world' - all continents but Antarctica are
included, since no ancient human artifacts have turned up
there...yet.) There are daily updates of news and ideas relating
to the ancient world, listings of television programs on ancient
themes, links to images of archeological digs and art objects,
meditations on applications of ancient ideas to today's world, and
much more. Subscribe at this site to Meadows' free weekly e-mail
newsletter Explorator, and get the latest about the
ancient world every Sunday! Thaumasios!
Library of Ancient Texts Online: A wide variety of texts by ancient authors. Translation quality varies widely, and please read the site's discussion entitled "disadvantages of online editions." But if a text is not available in GMU, and you want to get an idea of whether you're going to need to order it from the Consortium Loan Service or InterLibrary Loan for your paper, this is a good way to tell.
Non-contradiction.com
This site is devoted to Aristotle's works and achievements. It has
links to translations of his writings (including some that are
hard to find online elsewhere), a glossary of Greek words, a
history of his life, links to other pages on Aristotle (full
disclosure: these include some of the pages from the site you are
on now), and much more. Be sure to check out the page on Aristotle's
Catfish, a fish at the center of thousands of years of
scientific controversy!
The
Aperion
Project
This group creates music based on themes from ancient cultures and
pre-Socratic philosophy, among other inspirations. Be sure to
check out "Anaximander's Lament," available here.
Kudos to the Aperion project, and thanks to Brandon Rizzo for
permitting me to link to their site. Deep evil scary metaphysics
takes to the airwaves (or the fiber-optic cables)!