The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy—the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventuall

Zeno's extraordinary and disturbing paradoxes, the atomic theories of Democritus that so strikingly anticipate contemporary physics, the enigmatic and haunting

A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.

This two-part volume collects the complete fragments and most important testimonies for the leading presocratic philosophers. The Greek and Latin texts are tran