The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics, Part 1

Daniel W. Graham

Cambridge University Press, 2010 - History - 1020 pages

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 This edition contains new fragments and testimonies not included in the authoritative but now outdated Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.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.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Part I Cosmologists and ontologists: 15
• Part II Sophists: 687
• Pythagoras: 905
• General Bibliography: 934
• Concordance DielsKranz to TEGP: 939
• Index of Sources: 957
• Index of Passages: 1000
• General Index: 1006

About the author

Daniel W. Graham is A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Aristotle's Two Systems (1987); editor of the collected papers on ancient philosophy of Gregory Vlastos, Studies in Greek Philosophy (2 vols., 1995); translator-commentator of Aristotle: Physics, Book VIII (1999); co-editor with Victor Caston of a Festschrift for his mentor: Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos (2002); author of Explaining the Cosmos: the Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy (2006); and co-editor with Patricia Curd of The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (2008).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics, Part 1; The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics, Daniel W. Graham, ISBN 0521845912, 9780521845915
• Editor: Daniel W. Graham
• Translated by: Daniel W. Graham
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0521845912, 9780521845915
• Length: 1020 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical