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Greek Classics

The Athenian foundations: Plato's dialogues and Aristotle's treatises on ethics, politics, logic and art.

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Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle · 350 BC · ~6 hour read

Aristotle's foundational work on ethics and the good life. He explores happiness, virtue, friendship, and what it means to live well as a human being.

Apology

Plato · 399 BC — Socrates' defense before an Athenian jury against charges of impiety and corrupting the young.

Gorgias

Plato · 380 BC — Socrates asks what rhetoric is and argues that doing injustice is worse than suffering it.

Meno

Plato · 380 BC — Socrates and Meno debate whether virtue can be taught.

Categories

Aristotle · 350 BC — the opening treatise of the Organon, sorting every expression into ten basic kinds.

Rhetoric

Aristotle · 350 BC — three books on persuasion, analyzing proof, emotion, character, style, and arrangement.

On the Soul

Aristotle · 335 BC — the soul as the principle of life, tracing nutrition, sense, imagination, and intellect.

Poetics

Aristotle · 335 BC — how plot, character, reversal, and recognition make tragedy work.

Politics

Aristotle · 330 BC — constitutions, citizenship, and the ideal state drawn from over a hundred Greek city-states.

Politics

Selected Lives of Plutarch

Plutarch · 100 AD — four Parallel Lives: Publicola, Eumenes, Demosthenes, and Aristides the Just.

Roman · Biography

The Enchiridion

Epictetus · 125 AD — maxims for inner freedom by focusing only on what lies within your control.

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