Fragments and Testimonia / Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ; a text and translation with notes and essays by Patricia Curd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anaxagoras.

Contributor:

Curd, Patricia, 1949-

Series:

Phoenix pre-Socratics ; v. 6.

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 44.

Phoenix pre-Socratics ; v. VI = Les Pre-Socratiques Phoenix ; v. VI

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; v. XLIV = Phoenix. Tome supplementaire, OO79-1784 ; v. XLIV

Standardized Title:

Selections. English & Greek. 2007

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anaxagoras--Criticism and interpretation.

Anaxagoras.

Anaxagoras -- Criticism and interpretation.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that Mind is the ordering principle of the cosmos, he explained solar eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of astronomical, meteorological, and biological phenomena. His metaphysical claim that everything is in everything and his rejection of the possibility of coming to be or passing away are fundamental to all his other views. Because of his philosophical doctrines, Anaxagoras was condemned for impiety and exiled from Athens.This volume presents all of the surviving fragments of Anaxagoras's writings, both the Greek texts and original facing-page English translations for each. Generously supplemented, it includes detailed annotations, as well as five essays that consider the philosophical and interpretive questions raised by Anaxagoras. Also included are new translations of the ancient testimonia concerning Anaxagoras's life and work, showing the importance of the philosopher and his ideas for his contemporaries and successors. This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought.

Contents:

pt. 1. The Fragments and Their Contexts

pt. 2. Notes on the Fragments and Testimonia

Notes on the Fragments

Testimonia

pt. 3. Essays

1. Anaxagoras's Life and Work

2. The Original Mix and the Seeds

3. Everything in Everything

4. Minding Things: The Workings of Nous

5. Anaxagorean Science

The Ancient Sources for Anaxagoras.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-254) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4426-8402-X

OCLC:

427681236