A Presocratics Reader

ISBN 10: 0872203263 / ISBN 13: 9780872203266

Published by Hackett Pub Co, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Presocratics Reader
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872203263
• ISBN 13: 9780872203266
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Translated by Richard McKirahan Jr