See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.

Contents

• The Hellenistic World
• Alexander (356-323 BCE)
• The Hellenistic States
  • Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BCE)
  • Seleucid Empire (323-63 BCE)
  • Advent of Rome
• Art and Architecture
• Literature
  • Idyll
  • Novels
  • Biography
• Philosophy
  • Cynics
  • Epicureans
  • Stoics
  • Skeptics
• Religion
• Science and Medicine
  • Critical Thought
  • Theoretical Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Engineering
  • Travel: Geography
• Modern Perspectives on Hellenistic Greece

The Hellenistic World

• MEGA Hellenistic Greece on the Net

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Alexander (356-323 BCE)

• Map: Alexander's Conquests [At PSU]
• Animated Map: Alexander's Campaigns [At WWU]
• Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Alexander [At MIT]
• Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Alexander, excerpts. [At this Site]
• Alexander (356-323 BCE): Speech, from Arrian (c.85/90-after 146/6 CE) The Campaigns of Alexander. [At this Site]
• The Need for Source Criticism: A Letter from Alexander to Aristotle? [At this Site]
  
• WEB Alexander the Great[Internet Archive]
• WEB Alexander the Great: A Bibliography [At Calgary]
• MEGA Alexander on the Web [Website]
  Very complete listing of sites, with commentary

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The Hellenistic States

• Map: The Hellenistic World after the Death of Antigonus, 300BCE [At Internet Archive, from Acadia]
• Map: Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires in 240 BCE
• Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Demetrius [At MIT]
• Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BCE)
  • Athanaeus (fl. c. 200 CE): The Great Spectacle and  Procession of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 285 BCE [This Site]
  • List of Ptolemys [At House of Ptolemy]
  • Plutarch  (c.46-c.120 CE): Cleopatra, from Life of Mark Anthony, [At Diotima]
    The Last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt.
  • WEB House of Ptolemy [Website]
  • WEB Treasures of the Sunken City [Website]
    A NOVA site on marine archeological explorations at Alexandria. The images and video call for a fast web connection.
• Seleucid Empire (323-63 BCE)
  • List of Seleucid Kings [At Livius.org]
• Advent of Rome
  • Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Roman Maniple vs. The Macedonian Phalanx, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32 [At this Site]
  • Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Pyrrhus [At MIT]
  • Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Destruction of Corinth, 146 BCE The Histories, Book XXXVIII, Chapters 3-11; Book XXXIX, Chapters 7-17 [At this Site]

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Art and Architecture

• WEB Greek Art and Architecture Images [At UCCS]

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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
  • 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
  • Chariton (2nd Cent CE?): Chaireas and Callirhoe [Synopsis of the Plot][At Montclair]
  • Lucius Apuleius (c. 123-c. 170 CE): Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass [At Eserver] Latin Text [At Bibliotheca Augustana]
    Adlington's translation, 1566
    See also the WEB Apuleius Website [At Internet Archive]
  • Heliodorus (fl. 220-250 CE): Ethiopian Story [Synopsis of the Plot][At Montclair]
  • WEB Petronian Society Ancient Novel Page [Website-Montclair]
• 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

• 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)
  • Diogenes Laertius (3rd Cent. BCE): Life of Hipparchia from Lives, Book VI. 96-98 [At Diotima]
• Epicureans
  • 2ND Epicurus, Lucretius [IEP Articles]
  • Diogenes Laertius (3rd Cent. CE): Lives of Eminent Philosophers X: Epicurus [At Epicurus]
  • Epicurus (342-270 BCE) : Letter to Menoecius, From Digenes Laertius (3rd Cent. CE), Lives, [At Internet Archive, from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
  • Epicurus (342-270 BCE): Principle Doctrines, From Digenes Laertius (3rd Cent. CE), Lives, [At Epicurus.net]
  • 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]
  • 2ND Zeno of Citium (c335-c262 BCE)[Modern Account][At Geocities]
  • Cleanthes (331-232 BCE)
  • 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
  • 2ND Ancient Greek Skepticism, Academy, Pyrrho, Carneades, Anesidemus,[IEP Articles]
  • 2ND Ancient Skepticism [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
  • Diogenes Laërtius:  The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers The Sceptics: Life of Pyrrho [At this Site]
  • Pyrrhon of Elea (c.365-c.270)
  • Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Carneades' Visit to Rome (c.213-129 BCE), from Life of Cato the Older [This Site]
    Shocking the Romans!
  • Anesidemus (1st Cent. CE)

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Religion

• Lucius Apuleius (c.123-c.170 CE): Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass [At Eserver]
  Adlington's translation, 1566
• Lucius Apulieus (c.123-c.170 CE): Apologia [At UPenn]
  Full text in Latin and English, or see Translation by Butler [At MIT]
• Philostratus (2-3rd Cent CE): Life Apollonius of Tyana (b.c.4 BCE)
• Greek Magical Papyri I, Papyri II, Papyri III

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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
  • Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Why the Nile Floods in Summer (Hdt. 2.19-2.27) [At Internet Archive, from Holy Cross]
  • Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Critique of Geography (Hdt. 4.36.2-45.5) [At Internet Archive, from Holy Cross]
  • Geography in Herodotus [At Holy Cross]
• Theoretical Science
  • Aristotle (384-323 BCE): The Four Causes [At WSU]
• Mathematics
  • 2ND Donald Lancon: An Introduction to the Works of Euclid [Modern Account]
  • WEB Euclid (c.300 BCE): Elements [At Clark][Full Text]
    The site has Java applets which let you play around with the geometric figures.
• Medicine
  • Galen (129-199 CE): On the Natural Faculties, [At MIT][Full Text][Chapter files]
  • Galen (129-199 CE): On the Natural Faculties, [At Medicina Antiqua][added 1/27/99]
  • Galen (129-199 CE): On Hippocrates On the Nature of Man [At Medicina Antiqua]
  • The Hippocratic Oath [At Saskatchewan]
  • WEB Hippocratic Texts (c.430-330 BCE)[At MIT]
    [Selected texts. See instead of ERIS]
  • WEB Medicina Antiqua [Website]
    Texts and images on ancient medicine.
  • WEB Antiqua Medicina: From Homer to Vesalius [Website]
• Engineering
  • Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Marcellus [At MIT]
    See chaps. 14-17, 19 for an account of Archimedes (c.287-c.212 BCE).
  • Hero of Alexandria (fl/ 62 CE): Pneumatics [Full Text] [At Steam Engine Library]
  • WEB Archimedes (c.287-c.212 BCE)[Website]
    The site has extensive source text quotations and illustrations. See for instance this one on Archimedean Solids.
  • 2ND Why did the Ancients Not Develop Machinery [At Southwestern]
• 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.
  • 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

• Thomas Jefferson: I am an Epicurean [At CSUN]

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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].

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