📚 Ancient Philosophy

Books with ancient philosophy on their catalogue record, first published between 1472 and 1998, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient philosophy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,202 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	1626	643
	Τίμαιος	Plato	1520	163
	Φαῖδρος	Plato	1792	138
	Plato and Platonism	Walter Pater	1893	97
	Physics	Aristotle	1472	88
	Great Dialogues of Plato	Πλάτων	1956	45
	De rervm natvra libri sex	Titus Lucretius Carus	1563	43
	Lives, teachings, and sayings of famous philosophers	Diogenes Laertius	1541	38
	Κριτίας	Πλάτων	1998	36
	The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato; Golden Sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius	Charles William Eliot	1907	35
	Telluris theoria sacra	Thomas Burnet	1673	28
	Manual	Epictetus	1655	27
	The discourses of Epictetus	Epictetus	1800	27
	De caelo	Aristotle	1545	25
	Early Greek Philosophy	John Burnet	1892	24
	Stolen legacy	George G. M. James	1989	22
	Grundriss der Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie	Eduard Zeller	1883	21
	Socrates	A. E. Taylor	1932	16
	The pre-Socratic philosophers	Kathleen Freeman	1946	16
	Greek thinkers	Theodor Gomperz	1901	14
	Greek philosophy	John Burnet	1914	14
	A sketch of ancient philosophy from Thales to Cicero	Joseph B. Mayor	1881	13
	The philosophy of Plotinus	Inge, William Ralph	1918	13
	Ancilla to The pre-Socratic philosophers	Kathleen Freeman	1952	13
	The fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes	Zeno the Stoic	1891	12
	History of ancient philosophy	W. Windelband	1899	12
	Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs	Jean-Pierre Vernant	1965	12
	Dissertationes	Maximus of Tyre	1677	11
	Before and after Socrates	Francis MacDonald Cornford	1932	11
	Handbuch der Geschichte der Griechisch-römischen Philosophie	Christian August Brandis	1835	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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