A Presocratics Reader
eBook - PDF

A Presocratics Reader

Selected Fragments and Testimonia

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Presocratics Reader

Selected Fragments and Testimonia

About this book

Building on the virtues that made the first edition of A Presocratics Reader the most widely used sourcebook for the study of the Presocratics and Sophists, the second edition offers even more value and a wider selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates.

With revised introductions, annotations, suggestions for further reading, and more, the second edition draws on the wealth of new scholarship published on these fascinating thinkers over the past decade or more, a remarkably rich period in Presocratic studies.

At the volume's core, as ever, are the fragments themselves--but now in thoroughly revised and, in some cases, new translations by Richard D. McKirahan and Patricia Curd, among them those of the recently published Derveni Papyrus.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. On Abbreviations and Notes
  6. Maps
  7. Timeline
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Introduction
  10. 2. The Milesians
  11. 3. Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism
  12. 4. Xenophanes of Colophon
  13. 5. Heraclitus of Ephesus
  14. 6. Parmenides of Elea
  15. 7. Zeno of Elea
  16. 8. Empedocles of Acragas
  17. 9. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
  18. 10. Leucippus and Democritus: Fifth-Century Atomism
  19. 11. Melissus of Samos
  20. 12. Philoloaus of Croton
  21. 13. Diogenes of Apollonia
  22. 14. The Sophists
  23. 15. The Derveni Papyrus, Columns IV–XXVI
  24. Concordance