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Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers Index

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| Acropolis, photo by J.B. Hare, © 2008, All Rights Reserved | Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers by Kathleen Freeman [1948] | This is a translation of nearly every scrap of the writings of the Greek Pre-Socratic Philosophers, from the nearly legendary Orpheus, through Thales, Pythagoras, Heracleitus, Zeno, and Democritus. Included are translations of all known quotations from each writer, names of lost books they wrote, what other authors said about their beliefs, as well as spurious…