Doctrine and Doxography: Studies on Heraclitus and Pythagoras

by David Sider (editor), Dirk Obbink (Editor)

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on the Presocratic philosophers Pythagoras and Heraclitus. Investigated by a team of international scholars are key problems in doxography, Pythagorean Communities, logos, harmony, psychology, flux, number theory, ethics, and theology. Designed for all students of ancient philosophy, this volume will spur further investigations into these cardinal concerns of early Greek scientific thinkers.

Genres: Philosophy

359 pages, Hardcover

First published October 17, 2013

About the author

Professor of Classics at New York University, most of his work has been in Greek poetry and Greek philosophy.