A Presocratics Reader, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Patricia Curd

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
On Abbreviations and Notes......Page 9
Maps......Page 11
Timeline......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 15
1. Introduction......Page 16
2.1 Thales......Page 28
2.2 Anaximander......Page 31
2.3 Anaximenes......Page 34
3. Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism......Page 38
4. Xenophanes of Colophon......Page 46
5. Heraclitus of Ephesus......Page 54
6. Parmenides of Elea......Page 70
7. Zeno of Elea......Page 81
8. Empedocles of Acragas......Page 88
9. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae......Page 116
10. Leucippus and Democritus: Fifth-Century Atomism......Page 124
11. Melissus of Samos......Page 142
12. Philoloaus of Croton......Page 147
13. Diogenes of Apollonia......Page 153
14. The Sophists......Page 159
14.1 Protagoras......Page 160
14.2 Gorgias......Page 163
14.3 Prodicus......Page 168
14.4 Hippias......Page 169
14.5 Antiphon......Page 170
15. The Derveni Papyrus, Columns IV–XXVI......Page 177
Concordance......Page 188