# A History of Western Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy > ## Part I. The Pre-Socratics ## Part I. The Pre-Socratics ### Chapter 1. The Rise of Greek Civilization ### Chapter 2. The Milesian School ### Chapter 3. Pythagoras ### Chapter 4. Heraclitus ### Chapter 5. Parmenides ### Chapter 6. Empedocles ### Chapter 7. Athens in Relation to Culture ### Chapter 8. Anaxagoras ### Chapter 9. The Atomists ### Chapter 10. Protagoras ## Part II. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ### Chapter 11. Socrates ### Chapter 12. The Influence of Sparta ### Chapter 13. The Sources of Plato's Opinions ### Chapter 14. Plato's Utopia ### Chapter 15. The Theory of Ideas ### Chapter 16. Plato's Theory of Immortality ### Chapter 17. Plato's Cosmogony ### Chapter 18. Knowledge and Perception in Plato ### Chapter 19. Aristotle's Metaphysics ### Chapter 20. Aristotle's Ethics ### Chapter 21. Aristotle's Politics ### Chapter 22. Aristotle's Logic ### Chapter 23. Aristotle's Physics ### Chapter 24. Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy ## Part III. Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle ### Chapter 25. The Hellenistic World ### Chapter 26. Cynics and Sceptics ### Chapter 27. The Epicureans ### Chapter 28. Stoicism ### Chapter 29. The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture ### Chapter 30. Plotinus