The Phoenix Presocratic series is designed for modern students of the Presocratic philosophers. Each volume presents extant fragments from one major Presocratic figure or groups of figures. A Greek text with a new, facing-page translation is provided, together with an introduction or commentary outlining the main problems of interpretation and philosophical issues raised by each thinker's work. The volumes also contain English translations of substantial material from the ancient testimonia concerning each author's life and teaching, and offer selective bibliographical guidance.
In this book, James Lesher presents the Greek texts of all the surviving fragments of Xenophanes' teachings, with an original English translation on facing pages, along with detailed notes and commentaries and a series of essays on the philosophical questions generated by Xenophanes' remarks.
This volume provides the Greek text of Heraclitus with a new, facing page translation together with a commentary outlining the main problems of interpretation and the philosophical issues raised by Heraclitus' work.
This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought.
A new presentation of the evidence for the thought of Leucippus and Democritus, based on the original sources. Includes the Greek text of the fragments with facing English translation, notes, commentary, and complete indexes and concordances.
