A new presentation of the evidence for the thought of Leucippus and Democritus, based on the original sources. Includes the Greek text of the fragments with fac

This first volume takes the story from its beginnings in Ionian philosophy as far as the formation of the Atomic Theory and the first criticisms of it by Plato

This handbook brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute presocratic philosophy. The

The two studies, "Indivisible Magnitudes," and “Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action,” explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a

Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of