โ Scribed by Patricia Curd (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
Preface
On Abbreviations and Notes
Maps
Time Line
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Milesians
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism
Xenophanes of Colophon
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Parmenides of Elea
Zeno of Elea
Empedocles of Acragas
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
Leucippus and Democritus: Fifth-Century Atomism
Melissus of Samos
Philolaus of Croton
Diogenes of Apollonia
The Sophists
Protagoras
Gorgias
Prodicus
Hippias
Antiphon
The Derveni Papyrus, Columns IVโXXVI
Concordance
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