Building on the virtues that made the first edition of A
Presocratics Reader the most widely used sourcebook for the study
of the Presocratics and Sophists, the second edition offers even
more value and a wider selection of fragments from these
philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates. With
revised introductions, annotations, suggestions for further
reading, and more, the second edition draws on the wealth of new
scholarship published on these fascinating thinkers over the past
decade or more, a remarkably rich period in Presocratic studies. At
the volume's core, as ever, are the fragments themselves--but now
in thoroughly revised and, in some cases, new translations by
Richard D. McKirahan and Patricia Curd, among them those of the
recently published Derveni Papyrus.