The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics
Cambridge University Press, 9/9/2010
EAN 9780521608428, ISBN10: 0521608422
Paperback, 1170 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 5 cm
Language: English
This two-part sourcebook gives the reader easy access to the language and thought of the Presocratic thinkers, making it possible either to read the texts continuously or to study them one by one along with commentary. It contains the complete fragments and a generous selection of testimonies for twenty major Presocratic thinkers including cosmologists, ontologists, and sophists, setting translations opposite Greek and Latin texts on facing pages to allow easy comparison. The texts are grouped in chapters by author in a mainly chronological order, each preceded by a brief introduction and an up-to-date bibliography, and followed by a brief commentary. Significant variant readings are noted. This edition contains new fragments and testimonies not included in the authoritative but now outdated Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. It is the first and only complete bilingual edition of the works of the Presocratic philosophers for English-speakers.
Introduction; Part I. Cosmologists and Anti-Cosmologists: A. The Sixth Century BC: 1. Thales; 2. Anaximander; 3. Anaximenes; 4. Xenophanes; 5. Heraclitus; B. The Fifth Century BC: 6. Parmenides; 7. Zeno; 8. Anaxagoras; 9. Empedocles; 10. Diogenes of Apollonia; 11. Melissus; 12. Philolaus; 13. The atomists: Leucippus and Democritus; 14. The atomists, continued: Democritus' ethics; Part II. Sophists: 15. Protagoras; 16. Gorgias; 17. Antiphon; 18. Prodicus; 19. Anonymous texts; A. Anonymus Iamblichi; B. Dissoi Logoi; Appendix; Pythagoras; Concordance; Indexes.
'The two-volume Texts of Early Greek Philosophy ... edited and presented by Daniel W. Graham, are a monumental but accessible feat. Here, in a finely printed and bilingual version, are the hours of morning in Western thought. Once Parmenides equated thought and being, the long journey had begun.' George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement