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    <namePart>Waterfield, Robin</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1952-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>2000</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xlvi, 354 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Note on the texts -- Timeline -- The Presocratics. The Milesians: Thales of Miletus, Anaximander of Miletus, Anaximenes of Miletus ; Xenophanes of Colophon ; Heraclitus of Ephesus ; Parmenides of Elea ; Zeno of Elea ; Melissus of Samos ; Pythagoras of Croton and fifth-century Pythagoreanism ; Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ; Empedocles of Acragas ; The atomists: Leucippus of Abdera, Democritus of Abdera ; Diogenes of Apollonia --The Sophists. Protagoras of Abdera ; Gorgias of Leontini ; Prodicus of Ceos ; Hippias of Elis ; Antiphon the Sophist ; Thrasymachus of Chalcedon ; Euthydemus and Dionysodorus of Chios ; Double arguments ; Anonymous and miscellaneous texts -- Explanatory notes -- Textual notes -- Concordance with Diels/Kranz -- Index of translated passages.</tableOfContents>
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    <topic>Pre-Socratic philosophers</topic>
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    <topic>Sophists (Greek philosophy)</topic>
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    <topic>Prâ¥³ocratiques</topic>
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    <topic>Sophistes grecs</topic>
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