A Presocratics Reader
Subtitle: Selected Fragments and Testimonia
By: edited, with introduction, by Patricia Curd ; translations by Richard D. McKirahan
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781603843058; 9781603843065
Subjects: Sources; Ancient Philosophy; Pre-Socratic philosophers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface vi; title: On Abbreviations and Notes viii; title: Maps x; title: Time Line xiii; title: Acknowledgments xiv; title: 1. Introduction 1; title: 2. The Milesians 13; title: 2.1. Thales 13; title: 2.2. Anaximander 16; title: 2.3. Anaximenes 19; title: 3. Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism 23; title: 4. Xenophanes of Colophon 31; title: 5. Heraclitus of Ephesus 39; title: 6. Parmenides of Elea 55; title: 7. Zeno of Elea 66; title: 8. Empedocles of Acragas 73; title: 9. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae 101; title: 10. Leucippus and Democritus: Fifth-Century Atomism 109; title: 11. Melissus of Samos 127; title: 12. Philolaus of Croton 132; title: 13. Diogenes of Apollonia 138; title: 14. The Sophists 144; title: 14.1. Protagoras 145; title: 14.2. Gorgias 148; title: 14.3. Prodicus 153; title: 14.4. Hippias 154; title: 14.5. Antiphon 155; title: 15. The Derveni Papyrus, Columns IV–XXVI 162; title: Concordance 173