Parmenides and Empedocles

by Parmenides, Empedocles, Stanley Lombardo

Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poets of the ancient world. But their work is rarely treated and still more rarely translated in its original form--as poetry. The complete extant fragments of Parmenides and Empedocles are collected here for the first time in a translation responsive to the original verse texts. Parmenides' philosophical fragments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610971620
• ISBN13: 9781610971621
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 7.7"