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In the last few decades, scholarship´s interest in Presocratic philosophy has concentrated more and more on its reception in antiquity (and beyond). The present volume follows this research approach and attempts, thanks to the contributions of various scholars, to investigate some of the most significant topics in the field of Presocratic philosophy, poetry, and doxography. The title recalls Aristotle´s famous definition of Presocratics as phi s Gamma , but its content goes beyond questions strictly connected to the investigation of nature. For this reason, the volume is divided into two parts: the first part is properly devoted, on the one hand, to the doxographical and literary questions raised by the Presocratics, and, on the other, to their philosophical reception in antiquity; the second part explores the scientific and epistemological problems they tackle, with some additional references to the field of ethics.

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Contents

Introduction. New Perspectives in Presocratic Studies 1
CHRISTIAN VASSALLO

Part I.

Doxography, Literary Questions, and Philosophical Reception in Antiquity

1. Glaukon von Teos und die Anfänge des wissenschaftlichen Denkens 9
MICHAEL M. POZDNEV

2. Héraclite et Marc Aurèle : Sur une interprétation sto‹cienne
des fragments d´Héraclite 27
MARIA PROTOPAPAS-MARNELI

3. The Legacy of Heraclitean Logos in Plotinus´ Ontology 41
CHRISTIAN VASSALLO

4. Sind die d ni ? Grammatisch-Textkritisches zu Parmenides, Fr. 1, 32 ... 61
MANFRED KRAUS

5. On the Incipit of Melissus´ Treatise 77
MASSIMO PULPITO

6. La tradition " présocratique " des Placita 105
GÉRARD JOURNÉE

Part II.
Sciences, Knowledge, and Ethics

7. On the Principle of Anaximander 157
ALDO BRANCACCI

8. La théologie de Xénophane 169
SYLVANA CHRYSAKOPOULOU

9. Alcune osservazioni sul procedimento logico di Parmenide 199
LEONARDO FRANCHI

10. Alcmaeon of Croton on Human Knowledge, the Seasons of Life,
and Isonomia: A New Reading of B 1 DK and Two Additional Fragments
from Turba Philosophorum and Aristotle 227
ANDREI V. LEBEDEV

11. Democritus and the Ensuing Degeneration of Scientific Atomism:
A Suggestion 259
VICTOR GYSEMBERGH

12. La riflessione sul piacere nell´Apologo di Eracle di Prodico di Ceo 265
MICHELE SOLITARIO

Abbreviations 281

Index of Modern Names 283

The Contributors 291

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