Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Sigla -- Introduction -- 1. Thought And Language -- 1. The Controversy of Homeric Psychology -- 2. Pronouns Constructing Identity -- 3. Grammaticalisation -- 4. Semantic Motivation in the Shift to Heavy Pronominal Reflexivity -- 5. The Transcendental Self Generated by Pronominal Reflexivity -- 2. Homer -- 1. Typology of Homeric Reflexives -- 2. Semantics of autos in Homer -- 3. The Idea of Psyche and Its Connection to the Reflexive -- 4. Conclusions -- 3. Early Lyric, Iambus And Elegy -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Complex Reflexives in Early Poetry -- 3. Simple autos As Reflexive (Theognis and Pindar) -- 4. Conclusions -- 4. The Presocratics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Heraclitus -- 3. The Cosmology/Ontology of Parmenides and Anaxagoras -- 4. Antiphon the Sophist -- 5. Democritus -- 6. The Roots of Reflexive Archai in the Presocratics and Their Legacy -- 7. The Gnomic Tradition -- 8. Conclusions -- 5. Conscience And The Reflexivisation Of Sunoida -- 6. Tragedy And Comedy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tragedy -- 3. Comedy -- 4. Conclusions -- 7. Plato -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. The Being of the In-Itself -- 3. Building a Reflexive Subject -- 4. The Reflexivity of Macrocosmic Beings -- 5. The Science of Science and Care of Self in Charmides and 1 Alcibiades -- 6. The (Im)possibility of Holistic Reflexivity -- 7. Conclusions -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- Index Nominum et Rerum.