A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia

Patricia Curd (Editor), Richard D. McKirahan (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0872203263 / ISBN 13: 9780872203266

Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1996

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This hardcover edition shows wear typical of library use, including stickers and markings on the cover. There is no dust jacket, and the cover exhibits signs of handling with creases and some scuffs. The binding remains intact, ensuring the book is still suitable for reading and reference. no dust jacket present, visible wear on the cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis/Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872203263
• ISBN 13: 9780872203266
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: unknown (no specific edition stated).
• Condition: Acceptable

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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