The Ancient Elements
Bibliography
GREEK “ELEMENT” DEITIES
My take on Hephaestus: https://youtu.be/6Y8dGWn4ir8
EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Routledge definition of ἀρχή/arche: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/arche/v-1#:~:text=arche%2Fv%2D1-,Article%20Summary,'%20and%20'basic%20entity'.
Fragments of Xenophanes (English, see frag. 6) tr. Fairbanks (1895): https://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/11Presocratics/Xenophanes%20Fragments.html
Fragments of Empedocles (Greek & English) tr. Leonard (1908): https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/fragmentsofemped00empe/fragmentsofemped00empe.pdf
On the Strasbourg Papyrus of Empedocles: https://ancphil.lsa.umich.edu/-/downloads/faculty/janko/empedocles-nature.pdf
ZOROASTRIANISM
Zoroastrian scriptures (incl. some audio recordings): http://www.avesta.org/
Fathi Habashi (2000) article, "Zoroaster and the Theory of the Four Elements," Bull. Hist. Chem. 25.2: http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/bulletin_open_access/v25-2/v25-2%20p109-115.pdf
Let's Talk Religion, "What is Zoroastrianism?": https://youtu.be/b1lcAX354cg?si=TrGPgMSPLZZpfVFt
PLATO & ZOROASTRIANISM
Kingsley, Peter. “Meetings with Magi: Iranian Themes among the Greeks, from Xanthus of Lydia to Plato’s Academy.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 5, no. 2 (1995): 173–209. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25183002.
Goodrich, W. J. “Plato, Politicus 269 E-270 A: An Allusion to Zoroastrianism?” The Classical Review 20, no. 4 (1906): 208–9. http://www.jstor.org/stable/694924.
Barker, Ernest. “Some Foreign Influences in Greek Thought.” Greece & Rome 5, no. 13 (1935): 2–11. http://www.jstor.org/stable/642177.
HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE/FOUR HUMORS & GALEN
Hippocrates, On the Nature of Man (Greek & English, Loeb ed.) tr. Jones (1931): https://archive.org/details/hippocrates04hippuoft/hippocrates04hippuoft/page/2/mode/2up?view=theater
Patrick Kelly on the humors: https://youtu.be/9k4RzFe6s8o?si=BLbK-Ir-QlvXJVzy
Frank Snowden, Yale lecture on Hippocrates, religiosity in medicine, and humoralism: https://youtu.be/QmmHNRpohbw?si=HrOm0ur5FTe2d4dd
Galen, On the Elements According to Hippocrates (English) tr. Lewis et al.: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/tr_GalElem.html
PROMETHEUS
Hesiod, Theogony (see lines 509-572), translation from Purdue University: https://users.pfw.edu/flemingd/Hesiod%20Theogony.pdf
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, full production reading (you can find free translations online, but it's really meant to be heard aloud): https://youtu.be/u1KYZ4WqP7Y?si=yRXH0fBRLXoc4Tb7
Johnston's translation of Prometheus Bound (2012): https://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/aeschylus/prometheusboundhtml.html
Greek: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0009%3Acard%3D1
PLATO, ARISTOTLE, & PLATONISM
Timaeus (Greek & English): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0180%3Atext%3DTim.%3Asection%3D17a
Zeyl's translation of the Timaeus (the version I'm using): https://www.amazon.com/Timaeus-Plato/dp/0872204464
Paul Krause's thoughts on Plato & eastern influence (2019 blog): https://minervawisdom.com/2019/05/06/introduction-to-plato-oriental-platonism/
Aristotle, On the Heavens (English) tr. Stocks: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.html
Aristotle, On Generation & Corruption (English) tr. Joachim: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/gener_corr.html
Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus (English) tr. Taylor Vol 1 (see esp. the beginning of Book III): https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/proclusontimaeus01procuoft/proclusontimaeus01procuoft.pdf
Vol 2: https://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/proclusontimaeus02procuoft/proclusontimaeus02procuoft.pdf
WITCHCRAFT/RITUAL MAGIC
Apollonius, Argonautica Book 3 (English): https://www.theoi.com/Text/ApolloniusRhodius3.html
Hunter's commentary on Apollonius 3 (with Greek text): https://www.amazon.com/Apollonius-Rhodes-Argonautica-Cambridge-Classics/dp/0521312361
PGM (Greek Magical Papyri / Papyri Graecae Magicae) ed. Hans Dieter Betz (English): https://ia801300.us.archive.org/19/items/TheGreekMagicalPapyriInTranslation/The_Greek_Magical_Papyri_in_Translation.pdf
(Hard copy of Betz' PGM): https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Magical-Papyri-Translation-Including/dp/0226044475
HERMETICISM
For background on Hermetic philosophy, visit Justin Sledge's Esoterica channel. He has a ton of videos on this topic.
Kore Kosmou, attr. Hermes Trismegistus (English w/commentary & introduction): https://ascendingpassage.com/Wisdom-Hermes-Trismegistus-Virgin-of-the-World-5.htm
Kore Kosmou, Greek, in the collections of Joannes Stobaeus, starting on p. 385: https://archive.org/details/adw8682.0001.001.umich.edu/page/388/mode/2up?view=theater
DARBY COSTELLO, ASTROLOGER, COLLECTED LECTURES ON THE ELEMENTS:
Earth & Air book (2018): https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Air-Astrological-Elements-Book/dp/1732650403/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=apoteastroblo-20&linkId=76b0dab7ed8c8bca836da4f11a3d0418&language=en_US
ASTROLOGY PODCAST (CHRIS BRENNAN) / HELLENISTIC ASTROLOGY
Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos in English (see esp. Book 1, Ch. 4): https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/home.html
Brennan’s 2013 paper on the Planetary Joys: https://www.hellenisticastrology.com/the-planetary-joys.pdf
Hellenistic Astrology, the Study of Fate & Fortune (Brennan’s book, 2017): https://www.amazon.com/Hellenistic-Astrology-Study-Fate-Fortune/dp/0998588903
Interview with Darby Costello on the Elements (podcast ep. 246): https://youtu.be/nqfK1H0qtYw?si=PLarC5eMMeSqBnqR
Interview with Dr. José Manuel Redondo on Proclus (podcast ep. 435): https://youtu.be/X_JOT7Wjq64?si=pOJAGBEKtn40EApV
MISCELLANEOUS
Derek Collins' book on ancient magic (see ch. 4 for Homeric verses as incantations): https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Ancient-Greek-World-Collins/dp/1405132396