Contributors
Preface
Source abbreviations
Lives and writings of the early Greek philosophers
Chronology
Map
The scope of early Greek philosophy
A. A. LONG
Sources
JAAP MANSFELD
The beginnings of cosmology
KEIMPE ALGRA
The Pythagorean tradition
CARL A. HUFFMAN
Heraclitus
EDWARD HUSSEY
Parmenides and Melissus
DAVID SEDLEY
Zeno
RICHARD D. MCKIRAHAN JR.
Empedocles and Anaxagoras: Responses to Parmenides
DANIEL W. GRAHAM
The atomists
C. C. W. TAYLOR
Rational theology
SARAH BROADIE
Early interest in knowledge
J. H. LESHER
Soul, sensation, and thought
ANDRE LAKS
Culpability, responsibility, cause: Philosophy,
historiography, and medicine in the fifth century
MARIO VEGETTI
Rhetoric and relativism: Protagoras and Gorgias
PAUL WOODRUFF
Protagoras and Antiphon: Sophistic debates on justice
FERNANDA DECLEVA CAIZZI
The poetics of early Greek philosophy
GLENN W. MOST
Bibliography
Index of passages
Index of names and subjects