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Soon after its publication, Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy was hailed as the favorite to become "the 'standard' text for survey courses in ancient philosophy.  Nothing on the market touches it for comprehensiveness, accuracy, and readability."*  Fifteen years on, that prediction has been borne out, and the volume's preeminence as the leading anthology for the teaching of ancient philosophy still stands.

The Fourth Edition features a completely revamped and expanded unit on the Presocratics and Sophists that draws on the wealth of new scholarship published on these fascinating thinkers over the past decade or more. At the core of this unit, as ever, are the fragments themselves—but now in thoroughly revised and, in some cases, new translations by Richard McKirahan and Patricia Curd, among them those of the recently published Derveni Papyrus.


S. Marc Cohen is Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington.

Patricia Curd is Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University.

C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.


*APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy

Introduction
Maps
Timeline
Acknowledgments

The Presocratics and the Sophists*

1. Introduction
2. The Milesians
    2.1. Thales
    2.2. Anaximander
    2.3. Anaximenes
3. Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism
4. Xenophanes of Colophon
5. Heraclitus of Ephesus
6. Parmenides of Elea
7. Zeno of Elea
8. Empedocles of Acragas
9. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
10. Leucippus and Democritus: Fifth-Century Atomism
11. Melissus of Samos
12. Philolaus of Croton
13. Diogenes of Apollonia
14. The Sophists
    14.1. Protagoras
    14.2. Gorgias
    14.3. Prodicus
    14.4. Hippias
    14.5. Antiphon
15. The Derveni Papyrus, Columns IV–XXV

* Except where noted, translations of the Presocratics and the Sophists are by R. D. McKirahan.

Plato

Introduction
Euthyphro, tr. C.D.C. Reeve
Apology, tr. C.D.C. Reeve
Crito, tr. C.D.C. Reeve
Protagoras (317e–334c, 348c–362a), tr. S. Lombardo and K. Bell
Gorgias (462a–481b), tr. D. J. Zeyl
Meno, tr. G.M.A. Grube
Phaedo, tr. G.M.A. Grube
Symposium, tr. A. Nehamas and P. Woodruff
Republic, tr. G.M.A. Grube; rev. C.D.C. Reeve I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X
Parmenides (127b–135d), tr. M. L. Gill and P. Ryan
Timaeus (27e–58c), tr. D. J. Zeyl

Aristotle*

Introduction
Categories 1–5, tr. S. M. Cohen and G. B. Matthews
De Interpretatione 1–4, 7, 9
Topics I.1–2, 5
Posterior Analytics I.1–6, 10; II.8–10, 19
Physics I.1, 5–9; II; III.1–3; VIII.6
On Generation and Corruption, I.1, 3–4; II.1–5
On the Heavens I.2; III.3–6, tr. W.K.C. Guthrie
Meteorologica IV.12, tr. S. M. Cohen
Parts of Animals I.1, 5
Metaphysics I.1–4, 6, 9; IV.1–3; VII.1–4, 6, 10–11, 13, 15, 17; VIII.1–2, 6; XII.6–9
De Anima I.1, 4; II.1–6, 11–12; III.3–5, 10–11
Nicomachean Ethics, I.1–5, 7–9, 13; II.1–6; III.1–5; V.1–2; VI.1–2, 5, 7, 12–13; VII.1–3; X.6–9, tr. T. Irwin
Politics I.1–2; II.1–5; III.1, 4, 6–12; VII.1–3, 13, 15

Appendixes

Suggestions for Further Reading
   The Presocratics and the Sophists
   Plato
   Aristotle
Concordance for the Presocratics and the Sophists
Glossary for Aristotle

* Except as noted, Aristotle translations are reprinted from Aristotle, Selections, translated and edited by Terence Irwin and Gail Fine. Copyright 1995 Terence Irwin and Gail Fine. Reprinted with permission. Glossary for Aristotle is adapted from the same work.