Philosophy: Ancient: Parmenides

Contents: List of bibliographical abbreviations --
Part 1. Parmenides' life. Fragments I-XIX: Text, translation, and commentary --
Part 2. Critical essays. Parmenides' concept of being --
Aletheia and Doxa --
The world of appearance described in the Doxa --
Parmenides in the ancient philosophical tradition --
Appendix I --
Appendix II.

David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding Parmenides' life and thought. All of the fragments have been translated in full and are arranged in the order that has become canonical since the publication of the fifth edition of Diels-Rranz's Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Alternative renderings are provided for passages whose meaning is disputed or where major questions of interpretation hinge upon the text or translation adopted. In an extended introductory essay, Gallop offers guidance on the background of the poem, and a continuous exposition of it, together with a critical discussion of its basic argument. The volume also includes an extensive bibliography, a glossary of key terms in the poem, and a section on sources and authorities.

This text is a revised and expanded version of A.H. Coxon's full critical edition of the extant remains of Parmenides of Elea - the fifth-century B.C. philosopher by many considered 'one of the greatest and most astonishing thinkers of all times'.