Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The sources of presocratic philosophy / David T. Runia -- Prehistory of presocratic philosophy in an orientalizing context / Walter Burkert -- Milesian measures : time, space, and matter / Stephen A. White -- The cloud-astrophysics of Xenophanes and Ionian material monism / Alexander P.D. Mourelatos -- Heraclitus : flux, order, and knowledge / Daniel W. Graham -- Signs and arguments in the Parmenides B8 / Richard D. McKirahan -- Anaxagoras and the theory of everything / Patricia Curd -- Empedocles : physical and mythical divinity / Oliver Primavesi -- Two problems in Pythagoreanism / Carl Huffman -- Atomism's Eleatic roots / David Sedley -- Leucippus's atomism / Daniel W. Graham -- Speculating about Diogenes of Apollonia / André Laks -- The Sophists / Michael Gagarin and Paul Woodruff -- The role of medicine in the formation of early Greek thought / Philip van der Eijk -- Presocratic Cosmologies / M.R. Wright -- Reason, cause, and explanation in presocratic philosophy / R.J. Hankinson -- The humanizing of knowledge in presocratic thought / J.H. Lesher -- Presocratic theology / T.M. Robinson -- Aristotle's account of the origins of philosophy / Michael Frede -- Classical representations and uses of the presocratics / John Palmer.