Collected in this volume are some of the most important articles published on the philosophy of the Greeks before Socrates. They cover:

• The nature of Presocratic thought
• The sources of our knowledge of the Presocratics
• The earliest philosophers up to Heraclitus

The articles in this volume deal with the four major philosophical positions of the presocratic period:

• The arguments of Parmenides and Zeno against earlier or contemporary pluralist theories
• The three pluralist responses of Empedocles, Anaxagoras and the early Atomists.

Widely praised for its accessibility and its concentration on the metaphysical issues that are most central to the history of Greek philosophy, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle offers a valuable introduction to the works of the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle.
For the Third Edition, Professor Allen has provided new translations of Socrates' speech in the Symposium and of the first five chapters of Aristotle's Categories, as well as new selections bearing on Aristotle's Theory of Infinity, Continuity, and Discreteness. The book also contains a general...