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M. Gregory Oakes, Ph.D.

Phil 301: History of Philosophy - Ancient Period

TR, 2-3:15pm, Kinard 312

Syllabi and Schedules

Syllabus


Assignments

Quiz

Essay One

Citation Guide
Essay Two
Final Essay Option

 


Study Guides

Precursors Guide  
Pre-Socratics Guide
Socrates Guide
Plato Guide: Republic II - IX
Aristotle I
Aristotle II
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Lecture Notes

Basic Terminology: Chaos, Cosmos, Logos

The Void

Parthenon

Pythagoran Theorem

Poseidon

Socrates

Ant Tunnels

Hesiod

Lines 1-165

Hesiodic Divine Family Tree

Ancient Greece Timeline

Map of Ancient Greece

The Giantess (Baudelaire)

Ancient Greek Music:

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (Joffrey)

A Proto-Geometric period figure

 

The Presocratics - Beginning Phase

Anaximander Info: Jaspers, Maps

Musical Inverval Ratios

 

The Presocratics - Critical Phase (see individual files, below)

Parmenides  
Zeno I Zeno II

 

The Presocratics - Phase Three: Reconciliation (see individual files, below)

The Pluralists

The Atomists

Socrates and Plato

Socrates I

Socrates II

Plato I (Leaving Socrates; The Task)

On pleonexia (Washington Post)

Plato II (Justice and the Tri-Partite Soul)

Plato III (Knowledge and Reality)

Sunset Refraction discussion

Plato IV (Decline of Kallipolis; Tyranny)

Qaddafi Video I - Qaddifi Video II

Aristotle

I - Categories

II - Physics (change)

III - Physics (4 causes)

IV - Ethics

 

 

Ptolemaic Universe

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex (text)

Summary of the Myth, with variations

Gospel at Colonus: Numberless are the World's Wonders (lyric)