A Presocratics reader : selected fragments and testimonia
- Publication/Creation:
- Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2011]
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- Second edition.
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- Full Title:
- A Presocratics reader : selected fragments and testimonia / edited, with introduction, by Patricia Curd ; translations by Richard D. McKirahan and Patricia Curd
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Curd, Patricia, 1949-, editor and translator
McKirahan, Richard D., translator
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Description/Summary
- Table of 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 IV-XXVI -- Concordance.
- Summary:
- "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."--Publisher.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- Translations from the Ancient Greek.
- Physical Type/Description:
- xiv, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936842493402486
- ISBN:
- 9781603843058
1603843051
9781603843065
160384306X - OCLC Number:
- 613994211
- Barcode:
- 010003096238
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