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

by: Vassallo, C.

About this book
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.

Author information
Christian Vassallo, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy.

Frontmatter
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
 

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

by: Vassallo, C.

• ISBN-13: 9783110726985 / 978-3-11-072698-5
• ISBN-03: 311072698X / 3-11-072698-X
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2021