Ancient Philosophy
Plato & His Predecessors

Besides seeing our fact you can watch this University of Pennsylvania video on Belief versus knowledge and realize that belief and knowledge are not mutually exclusive

For example: I assume you would say you don't believe Bigfoot exist, it's a common thing to say, but why don't you believe? Probably because of the lack of evidence for big foots existence right?

So it goes with god as well, most of us are agnostic atheist we don't believe in god because the lack of evidence for god.

I don't know if this is what you are looking for. But this online course from Coursera has around ten MCQ questions on Plato's Republic. Refer to weeks 3 and 4 for the Republic. Although you have to sign up to the site, the course is free. There is also a discussion section, which is not very active.

You might want to have a look at MOOC (essentially online courses). Many of them you can audit for free, even if they keep 'encouraging' you to purchase a certificate. I have yet to find any that deal specifically with Greek or Latin learning but there are several on other aspects of classical studies and will help to round out your education and inform you on the context of what you are reading elsewhere. These are all courses I have taken in general order of how interesting or useful I felt they were.

• Roman Architecture by Yale University via Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/roman-architecture)
• The Ancient Greek Hero by Harvard University via EdX (https://www.edx.org/course/ancient-greek-hero-harvardx-hum2x-0)
• Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World by Open University via Futurelearn (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/ancient-health)

These are also available but I haven't personally taken them so I have no idea on their content or quality.

• The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill by Sapienza University of Rome via Coursea (https://www.coursera.org/learn/palatine-hill-archaeology-history)
• Western Civilization: Ancient and Medieval Europe by Arizona State University via EdX (https://www.edx.org/course/western-civilization-ancient-medieval-asux-hst102x-4)
• Roman Art and Archaeology by University of Arizona via Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/roman-art-archaeology)
• *Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors by University of Pennsylvania via Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/plato)
• Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors by University of Pennsylvania via Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/aristotle)
• Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah by Yeshiva University via Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/archoftitus)
• The Ancient Greeks by Wesleyan University via Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks)
• Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier by Newcastle University via Futurelearn (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/hadrians-wall?lr=12)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/plato

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https://www.coursera.org/learn/aristotle

Coursera got 2 courses on both Plato and Aristotle as well as on the pre-socratic and the Hellenistic philosophers.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/plato?

https://www.coursera.org/learn/aristotle?

Both of these courses are free, and they're taught by the University of Pennsylvania. There, you will see the professor presents their ideas for quite a bit with clarity, and one of the topics that he focuses on is Aristotle's Metaphysics.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy

https://www.coursera.org/learn/plato

https://www.coursera.org/learn/aristotle

https://www.coursera.org/learn/plato-dialogues

https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking

https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy

Search: "syllabus <keyword> filetype:pdf"

etc.

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Beaucoup de mooc philo sur coursera avec des sous titre fr.

- https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy

- https://www.coursera.org/learn/kierkegaard

- https://www.coursera.org/learn/plato

- https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities

- https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethique

Excellent recommendations from u/onedayfourhours, I am going into some of these, but I will give you my plan, as a beginner, what I have set for myself. I wanted to set this as series of courses, asa I think it will be interesting to have a predefined path someone was thinking about, and some of these is giving additional resources within each lesson, possibility to discuss what you have been listening to, etc.

Intro to Philosophy MIT's 18-lecture course, it starts very interesting and is improving from there.

Critical reasoning for beginners - YouTube University of Oxford's 6-part course on Critical Reasoning.

A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners - YouTube Same university

Philosophical Problems - Free Course by La Trobe University on iTunes U - Introduction as well, but covering different philosophical topics then MIT's one.

I will then follow with a course on Plato. So far, I have read few of his dialogues, but will return to them and go in more structured fashion:

Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors | Coursera

Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato | Coursera

These should finish my "semester 1", I already have further plans, with courses to cover Roman philosophy (Seneca, Cicero) and continue with some medieval and Christian thinkers, going on further until 20th Century and existentialism.

For sites, Livius.org is a great, often accurate site for Greco-Roman articles that isn't a copy-paste of Wikipedia or some generic short summary from some University course textbook.

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For free-texts, Perseus Project by Tufts University has most extant major Greco-Roman works up until late Antiquity: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

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For a great free textual introduction to Greece, Perseus has on their site *An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander* by Thomas R. Martin, which gives a summary of events and background of Greek civilization from the late Bronze age to Alexander the Great: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0009%3Achapter%3D1

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There's three great and relatively short University courses on Coursera relating to Ancient Greece, one is a General history, another focused on Greco-Roman myth, and one an introduction about major Ancient Greek philosophy schools and philosophers (Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Cynics, Epicureans)

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General History course: The Ancient Greeks (Wesylan University; around 23 lecture hours long): https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks

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Greco-Roman Myth: Greek and Roman Mythology (University of Pennsylvania; around 31 lecture hours long): https://www.coursera.org/learn/mythology

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Introduction to Greek philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors: https://www.coursera.org/learn/plato Aristotle and his Successors: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aristotle

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There are no good trustworthy Youtubers that have covered Ancient Greek history in my experience. I'm just putting that out there. The best there is are those who know their own limited scope and just stick to doing rather generic military history battle summaries who attempt to limit their own bad-history. Youtube just isn't a medium credible people who know topics relating to Ancient Greece use. Stick to books and stuff written by credible academics online.

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For a good lecture series on Alexander the Great: Robin Lane Fox - " Alexander the Great (14 parts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpIrd-Ek5k&list=PLhabqLEle0TUPyL1GC0pHS5p8u89nY0bU

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For topics and subjects relating to the Greeks contemporary Near-Eastern neighbors, Encyclopædia Iranica is a great site (especially for history of Iran and Iranic people): http://www.iranicaonline.org/

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/u/Iphikrates also has written some very excellent answers to innumerable amount of questions relating to Ancient Greece that might fill in some common gaps from the above (especially for topics concerning for Classical Greek warfare): https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/profiles/iphikrates

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