Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1 The Meaning of Peri Phuseos 2 Cosmogonic Myth as an Antecedent to Peri Phuseos Writings 3 Anaximander's Historia Peri Phuseos 4 The Historia Peri Phuseos from Xenophanes to the Atomists Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index of Concepts and Proper Names Index of Classical Passages Cited

About the Author

Gerard Naddaf is Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto. He is the coauthor (with Dirk L. Couprie and Robert Hahn) of Anaximander in Context: New Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press, and the translator and editor of Plato the Myth Maker by Luc Brisson.