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

Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 785 p. — ISBN 311072698X, 9783110726985. — (Studia Praesocratica 11).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.Abbreviations
Prolegomena
Presocratics and the papyrological tradition: an overview
Presocratics and Epicureanism: a historico-philosophical inquiry based on the contribution of the Herculaneum papyri
The criteria and the rationale of the present collection
Corpus Praesocraticorum Herculanense
Conspectus siglorum
Conspectus signorum
Acusilaus Argivus
Alcmaeo Crotoniates
Anacharsis Scytha
Anaxagoras Clazomenius
Anaxarchus Abderites
Anaximander Milesius
Anaximenes Milesius
Antipho Rhamnusius
Critias Atheniensis
Damon Atheniensis
Democritus Abderites
Diagoras Melius
Diogenes Apolloniates
Diotimus Tyrius
Empedocles Acragantinus
Epicharmus Cous
Epimenides Cretensis
Euryphon Cnidius
Gorgias Leontinus
Heraclitus Ephesius
Hippias Eleus
Hippocrates Chius
Ion Chius
Leucippus Abderites
Melissus Samius
Metrodorus Chius
Metrodorus Lampsacenus (maior)
Musaeus Eleusinus
Nausiphanes Teius
Orpheus Thracius
Parmenides Eleates
Pherecydes Syrius
Philolaus Crotoniates
Prodicus Ceus
Protagoras Abderites
Pythagoras Samius
Thales Milesius
Thrasymachus Calchedonius
Xenophanes Colophonius
Zeno Eleates
Locorum laudatorum editiones
Commentary
Acusilaus Argivus
Alcmaeo Crotoniates
Anacharsis Scytha
Anaxagoras Clazomenius
Anaxarchus Abderites
Anaximander Milesius
Anaximenes Milesius
Antipho Rhamnusius
Critias Atheniensis
Damon Atheniensis
Democritus Abderites
Diagoras Melius
Diogenes Apolloniates
Diotimus Tyrius
Empedocles Acragantinus
Epicharmus Cous
Epimenides Cretensis
Euryphon Cnidius
Gorgias Leontinus
Heraclitus Ephesius
Hippias Eleus
Hippocrates Chius
Ion Chius
Leucippus Abderites
Melissus Samius
Metrodorus Chius
Metrodorus Lampsacenus (maior)
Musaeus Eleusinus
Nausiphanes Teius
Orpheus Thracius
Parmenides Eleates
Pherecydes Syrius
Philolaus Crotoniates
Prodicus Ceus
Protagoras Abderites
Pythagoras Samius
Thales Milesius
Thrasymachus Calchedonius
Xenophanes Colophonius
Zeno Eleates
Appendix
Diogenes of Oinoanda’s criticism of Presocratic philosophyIndices
Index locorum
Index nominum antiquorum
Index nominum recentiorum