![]() ![]() For the clarity and crispness of style, the modest but searching care in presentation and the drawing on the latest researches and evidence, all of which have informed Professor Guthrie's earlier writings, are well represented in this volume, in which there is a full-scale treatment of the earlier Presocratics: the Milesians, Pythagoras, Alcmaeon, Xenophanes, and Heraclitus. And in terms of the pleasures of reading as well as of learning, this first volume of Professor Guthrie's study promises a completed work on ancient Greck thought which will be most likely preferred not only by the scholar and specialist for whom it is primarily intended, but generally by students of classics and philosophy as well. Berry) of Theodor Gomperz' four-volume work: Greek Thinkers: ,4 History of Ancient Philosophy appeared between 1901-1912. ![]() There has been no such ambitiously comprehensive work available in English since the translation (by L. ![]() Professor Guthrie, Master of Downing College and Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, has surprised no one by the excellence of this admirable first in his projected series of five volumes devoted to a study of ancient Greek philosophy. (New York: Cambridge University Press,. ![]() Volume I: The Earlier Presocratics and The Pythagoreans. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īook Reviews A History of Greek Philosophy. ![]()
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