The Presocratics at Herculaneum: A Study of Early Greek Philosophy in the Epicurean Tradition, with an Appendix on Diogenes of Oinoanda's Criticism of Presocratic Philosophy

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This volume analyses in depth the reception of early Greek philosophy in the Epicurean tradition and provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive edition, with translation and commentary, of all the Herculanean testimonia to the Presocratics. Among the most significant scientific outcomes, it provides elements for the attribution of an earlier date to the attested tradition of Xenophanes' scepticism; a complete reconstruction of the Epicurean reception of Democritus; a new reconstruction of the testimonia to Nausiphanes' concept of physiologia, Anaxagoras' physics and theology, and Empedocles' epistemology; new texts for better comparing the doxographical sections of Philodemus' On Piety with those of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods, which update H. Diels' treatment of this subject in his Doxographi Graeci. Preface Contents Abbreviations Prolegomena 1 Presocratics and the papyrological tradition: an overview 2 Presocratics and Epicureanism: a historico-philosophical inquiry based on the contribution of the Herculaneum papyri 3 The criteria and the rationale of the present collection Corpus Praesocraticorum Herculanense Conspectus siglorum Conspectus signorum I Acusilaus Argivus II Alcmaeo Crotoniates III Anacharsis Scytha IV Anaxagoras Clazomenius V Anaxarchus Abderites VI Anaximander Milesius VII Anaximenes Milesius VIII Antipho Rhamnusius IX Critias Atheniensis X Damon Atheniensis XI Democritus Abderites XII Diagoras Melius XIII Diogenes Apolloniates XIV Diotimus Tyrius XV Empedocles Acragantinus XVI Epicharmus Cous XVII Epimenides Cretensis XVIII Euryphon Cnidius XIX Gorgias Leontinus XX Heraclitus Ephesius XXI Hippias Eleus XXII Hippocrates Chius XXIII Ion Chius XXIV Leucippus Abderites XXV Melissus Samius XXVI Metrodorus Chius XXVII Metrodorus Lampsacenus (maior) XXVIII Musaeus Eleusinus XXIX Nausiphanes Teius XXX Orpheus Thracius XXXI Parmenides Eleates XXXII Pherecydes Syrius XXXIII Philolaus Crotoniates XXXIV Prodicus Ceus XXXV Protagoras Abderites XXXVI Pythagoras Samius XXXVII Thales Milesius XXXVIII Thrasymachus Calchedonius XXXIX Xenophanes Colophonius XL Zeno Eleates Locorum laudatorum editiones Commentary I Acusilaus Argivus II Alcmaeo Crotoniates III Anacharsis Scytha IV Anaxagoras Clazomenius V Anaxarchus Abderites VI Anaximander Milesius VII Anaximenes Milesius VIII Antipho Rhamnusius IX Critias Atheniensis X Damon Atheniensis XI Democritus Abderites XII Diagoras Melius XIII Diogenes Apolloniates XIV Diotimus Tyrius XV Empedocles Acragantinus XVI Epicharmus Cous XVII Epimenides Cretensis XVIII Euryphon Cnidius XIX Gorgias Leontinus XX Heraclitus Ephesius XXI Hippias Eleus XXII Hippocrates Chius XXIII Ion Chius XXIV Leucippus Abderites XXV Melissus Samius XXVI Metrodorus Chius XXVII Metrodorus Lampsacenus (maior) XXVIII Musaeus Eleusinus XXIX Nausiphanes Teius XXX Orpheus Thracius XXXI Parmenides Eleates XXXII Pherecydes Syrius XXXIII Philolaus Crotoniates XXXIV Prodicus Ceus XXXV Protagoras Abderites XXXVI Pythagoras Samius XXXVII Thales Milesius XXXVIII Thrasymachus Calchedonius XXXIX Xenophanes Colophonius XL Zeno Eleates Appendix Diogenes of Oinoanda’s criticism of Presocratic philosophy References Indices Index locorum Index nominum antiquorum Index nominum recentiorum