Beginnings and early Ionian thinkers

Author(s)

• Laks, André
• Most, Glenn W.
• Journée, Gérard
• Iribarren, Leopoldo

Bibliographic Information

Beginnings and early Ionian thinkers

edited and translated by André Laks and Glenn W. Most ; in collaboration with Gérard Journée ; and assisted by Leopoldo Iribarren

（The Loeb classical library, 525-526 . Early Greek philosophy ; v. 2-3）

Harvard University Press, 2016

• pt. 1
• pt. 2

Other Title

Early Ionian thinkers

Note

Ancient Greek or some Latin, Arabic, Armenian text and English translation on opposite pages

Title of pt. 2: Early Ionian thinkers

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the material's thematic organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these thinkers until the end of antiquity. Volume I contains introductory and reference materials essential for using all other parts of the edition. Volumes II-III include chapters on ancient doxography, background, and the Ionians from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. Volumes IV-V present western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo. Volumes VI-VII comprise later philosophical systems and their aftermath in the fifth and early fourth centuries. Volumes VIII-IX present fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics, and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama.

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Details

• NCID: BB22237376
• ISBN:
  • 9780674996892
  • 9780674996915
• LCCN: 2015957358
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: enggrclataraarm
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B188
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Ancient
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115