Primary Literature

Numenius’ fragments

• Des Places, É. (ed. and trans. in French), Numénius. Fragments, Paris: Belles Lettres, 1973.
• Jourdan, F., Penser et être dieu: Essais sur l’enseignement de Numénius mis en regard des Oracles chaldaiques et lu par Proclus, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2023 (collects and translates the fragments of Numenius’ On the Good). (Scholar)
• Leemans, E.-A., Studie over den Wijsgeer Numenius van Apamea met Uitgave der Fragmenten, Bruxelles: Academie Royale de Belgique, 1937.
• Boys-Stones, G., Platonic Philosophy 80 BC to 250 AD. A Study and Collection of Sources in Translation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• Reinhardt, T., Cicero’s Academici libri and Lucullus. A Commentary with Introduction and Translations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023 (collects and translates the fragments of Numenius’ On the Dissension of the Academics from Plato) (Scholar)

Alcinous

• Whittaker, J. (ed.) P. Louis (trans. in French), Alcinoos, Enseignement des doctrines de Platon, Paris: Belles Lettres, 1990.
• Dillon, J. (trans. in English with commentary), Alcinous. The Handbook of Platonism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Aristotle

• Jaeger, W. (ed.), Aristotelis Metaphysica, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957 (OCT).

Atticus

• Des Places, É. (ed. and trans. in French), Atticus. Fragments, Paris: Belles Lettres, 1977.

Aulus Gellius

• Rolfe, J. (ed. and trans. in English), Aulus Gellius. Attic Nights, vols. I–III, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927 (Loeb). (Scholar)

Calcidius

• Waszink, H. J. (ed.), Timaeus a Calcidio translatus commentarioque instructus, London and Leyden: Warburg Institute, 1962.
• Magee, J. (ed. and trans.), On Plato’s Timaeus, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. (Scholar)

Clement

• Stählin, O. (ed.), Clemens Alexandrinus Stromata, (3rd ed. by L. Früchtel and U. Treu) vols. I–II, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1960–1985.

Damascius

• Westerink, L. G. (ed. and trans. in English), The Greek Commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo, Damascius, vol. II, Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1977. (Scholar)

Diogenes Laertius

• Hicks, R. D. (ed. and trans. in English), Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vols. I–II, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (Loeb). (Scholar)

Eusebius

• Mras, K. (ed.), Eusebius Werke. Die Praeparatio Evangelica, vols. I–II, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1954–56 (2nd ed. by É. Des Places, 1982–83).
• Gifford, E. (ed. and trans. in English), Eusebii Pamphilii Evangelicae Preparationis Libri XV, vols. I–IV, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903.
• Schwartz, E.-Mommsen, Th. (ed.), Eusebius Werke. Die Kirchengeschichte, vols. I–III, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1903–1909.
• Lake, K. (ed. and trans. in English), Eusebius. The Ecclesiastical History, vols. I–II, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926, 1932 (Loeb). (Scholar)
• Helm, R. (ed.), Eusebius Werke. Die Chronik des Hieronymus, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1956.

Ioannes Lydus

• Wünsch, R. (ed.), Ioannis Lydi Liber de mensibus, Leipzig: Teubner, 1898.

Macrobius

• Willis, I. (ed.), Ambrosii Theodosii Macrobii Commentarii in somnium Scipionis, Leipzig: Teubner, 1970.
• Armisen-Marchetti, M. (ed. and trans. in French), Macrobe Commentaire au songe de Scipion, vol. I, Paris: Belles Lettres, 2001.

Nemesius

• Morani, M. (ed.), Nemesius De Natura Hominis, Leipzig: Teubner, 1987.
• Van der Eijk, Ph. and Sharples, R. (trans. in English), Nemesius On the Nature of Man, London: Liverpool University Press, 1994.

Origen

• Borret, M. (ed. and trans. in French), Contre Celse, vols. I–IV, Paris: Cerf, 1967 (Sources Chrétiennes). (Scholar)
• Chadwick, H. (trans. in English), Origen Contra Celsum, Cambridge: University Press, 1965².
• Preuschen, E., Origenes Werke. Der Johanneskommentar, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1903.

Philoponus

• Hayduck, M. (ed.), Philoponus in Aristotelis De anima, Berlin: Reimer, 1897 (CAG XV).

Photius

• Henry, R. (ed. and trans. in French), Photius. Bibliothèque, vols. I–VIII, Paris: Belles Lettres, 1959–1967.
• Wilson, N. (trans. in English), Photius. The Biblioteca, London: Duckworth, 1994.

Plato

• Duke, E. A., Hicken, W. F., Nicoll, W. S. M., Robinson, D. B., Strachan, J. C. G. (ed.), Platonis Opera, tetralogiae I–II, vol.I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995 (OCT).
• Burnet, J. (ed.), Platonis Opera, tetralogiae III–IX, vols. II–V, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1905–1915 (OCT).
• Cooper, J. (ed.), Plato Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997 (Plato’s works in English translation). (Scholar)

Plotinus

• Henry, P. and Schwyzer, H.-R. (ed.) Plotini Opera, vols. I–III, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964–1982 (OCT).
• Armstrong, A. H. (ed. and trans. in English), Plotinus, vols. I–VII, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966–1988 (Loeb). (Scholar)

Plutarch

• Cherniss, H. (ed. and trans. in English), Plutarch’s Moralia, vol. XIII.1, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976 (Loeb). (Scholar)
• Sandbach, F. H. (ed. and trans. in English), Plutarch’s Moralia, Fragments, vol. XV, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969 (Loeb). (Scholar)

Porphyry

• Henry, P. and Schwyzer, H-R. (ed.), Porphyrius, Vita Plotini, in Plotini Opera, vol. I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964 (OCT).
• Kalbfleisch, K. (ed.), Die neuplatonische, fälschlich dem Galen zugeschriebene Schrift Pros Gauron peri tou pôs empsychoutai ta anthrôpina embrya, Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1895.
• Des Places, É. (ed. and trans. in French), Porphyre Vie de Pythagore, Lettre à Marcella, Paris: Belles Lettres, 1982.
• Smith, A. (ed.), Porphyrius Fragmenta, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner 1993.
• Wilberding, J. (trans.), Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Series, R. Sorabji, ed.), London: Bloomsbury, 2011.

Proclus

• Diehl, E. (ed.), Proclus In Platonis Timaeum Commentarii, vols. I–III, Leipzig: Teubner, 1903–1906.
• Saffrey, H. and Westerink, L. (ed. and trans. in French), Proclus, Théologie Platonicienne, vols. I–V, Paris: Belles Lettres, 1968–1987.

Sextus Empiricus

• Bury, R. (ed. and trans. in English), Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians [Adversus Mathematicos], vol. II, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935 (Loeb). (Scholar)

Simplicius

• Diels, H. (ed.), Simplicius, In Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattor priores commentaria, Berlin: Reimer, 1882 (CAG IX).
• Diels, H. (ed.), Simplicius, In Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattor posteriores commentaria, Berlin: Reimer, 1895 (CAG X).

Syrianus

• Kroll, W. (ed.), Syrianus, In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria, Berlin: Reimer, 1902 (CAG VI).
• O’Meara, J. and Dillon, J. (trans. in English), Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 3–4, London: Duckworth, 2008.

Stobaeus

• Wachsmuth, C. and Hense. O. (ed.), Ioannis Stobaei Anthologium, vols. I–V, Berlin: Weidmann, 1884–1912.

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• Beutler, R., 1940, “Numenius,” in A. Pauly, G. Wissowa, W. Kroll (eds.), Real-Encyclopaedie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, Supplement Volume 7: 664–678. (Scholar)
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• Centrone, B., 1990, Pseudopythagorica Ethica. I trattati morali di Archita, Metopo, Teage, Eurifano, Naples: Bibliopolis. (Scholar)
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• Des Places, É, 1975, “Numénius et Eusèbe de Césarée”, Studia Patristica, 13: 19–28. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2010, “Numenius”, in L. Gerson (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010, vol. I, 115–125. (Scholar)
• Elferink, M. A., 1968, La Descente de l’âme d’après Macrobe, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
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