The presocratic philosophers : a critical history with a selection of texts /
by G. S. Kirk & J. E. Raven.
- Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1962.
- xi, 486 p. ; 22 cm.
"First printed, 1957; reprinted 1960, 1962." In third impression "Part of the account of Zeno, pp. 287-92, has been substantially altered; otherwise there are minor corrections ... "
Includes bibliography and index.
Introductory note: The sources for presocratic philosophy. -- The forerunners of philosophical cosmogony -- The Ionian thinkers. Thales of Miletus ; Anaximander of Miletus ; Anaximenes of Miletus ; Xenophanes of Colophon ; Heraclitus of Ephesus -- The Italian schools. Pythagoras of Samos ; Alcmaeon of Croton ; Pre-Parmenidean Pythagoreanism ; Parmenides of Elea ; Zeno of Elea ; Melissus of Samos ; Philolaus of Croton and Eurytus of Croton -- The post-Parmenidean systems. Empedocles of Acragas ; Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ; Archelaus of Athens ; The Atomists: Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera ; Diogenes of Apollonia.