From the Beginning to Plato

List of Sources
The following ancient authors and works are cited as sources, chiefly for pre-
Socratic philosophy, in this volume. Many of these works are available in
original language editions only; details of these may be found (for Greek
authors) in Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th edn, revised
H.S.Jones and R.McKenzie, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1940 (many reprints), pp.
xvi–xli. This list indicates English translations where available; (L) indicates that
the works cited are available, in the original with facing English translation, in the
Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press). Where details of a translation
are given in the bibliography of any chapter, the appropriate reference is given.
There is a helpful discussion of the sources for pre-Socratic philosophy in
G.S.Kirk, J.E.Raven and M.Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd edn,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983 ([1.6], pp. 1–6.
Achilles. Astronomer; 3rd c. AD.
Aetius. Conjectured author of a history of philosophy, believed to have lived
1st or 2nd c. AD. His work survives in two summaries, the Epitome of [Plutarch]
(1) (q.v.) and the Selections of Stobaeus (q.v.), with some excerpts also preserved
by Theodoretus (q.v.); these versions are edited by H.Diels in Doxographi Graeci
[2.1].
Albert the Great (St). Theologian and scientist; 13th c. AD. Work cited; On
Vegetables, ed. E.Meyer and C.Jessen, Berlin, 1867.
Alexander of Aphrodisias. Philosopher and Aristotelian commentator; 2nd–
3rd c. AD. Works cited; On Fate (trans. R.Sharples, London, Duckworth, 1983),
commentaries on Meteorology and Topics.
Ammonius. Neoplatonist philosopher; 5th c. AD. Work cited; commentary on
Porphyry’s Introduction.
Aristotle. 4th c. BC. All works cited are translated in J.Barnes (ed.) The
Complete Works of Aristotle, 2 vols, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press,
1984 (also (L)).
Asclepius. Aristotelian commentator; 6th c. AD. Work cited: commentary on
Metaphysics A–Z.
Boethius. Roman statesman and philosopher; 5th c. AD. See [8.29].