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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / a good and clean copy without markings. - �Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy is an important contribution to questions of method and interpretation in early Greek philosophy. More than that, it makes the figure of Hippolytus of Rome genuinely interesting in his own right, and shows convincingly the importance of taking into account Hippolytus�s own intentions and frame of reference in interpreting the fragments of presocratic wisdom that he preserves for us. The book offers exciting, if controversial, accounts of Heraclitus and Empedocles, and also of certain Christian doctrines with which theirs are compared�-David Konstan, Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, Brown University. This book initiates a bold new approach to the presocratic philosophers, whose works survive only in fragments quoted by later writers. Challenging traditional methods of assembling these fragments to form texts, Catherine Osborne believes that the objectivity offered by a context-free-fragment approach is spurious, because to isolate the presocratic fragments from their original contexts is to disconnect them from any possible structure of meaning. She proposes instead a methodology that makes full critical use of the doxography, the ancient interpretations through which the thought of the presocratics has been filtered. Osborne first shows the inadequacy of the traditional approach to the presocratics by analyzing two sections of the Refutatio, or Refutation of All Heresies, a work written by the Christian Hippolytus of Rome in the late second or early third century a.d. and considered suspect as a source of reliable evidence about the early Greek material. She compares Hippolytus�s treatment of Aristotle in the Refutatio with his account of Simon Magus and identifies the preoccupations and the patterns of selection and interpretation which must be taken into account when his citations of the Greeks are read as embedded texts. Finally, she explores Hippolytus�s interpretation of the presocratics Heraclitus and Empedocles and takes his text as a point of departure for provocative readings of those philosophers. To make the discussion accessible to readers without a knowledge of Greek, primary texts are given in translation; appendixes contain the Greek texts of passages cited, including a photographic reproduction of Wendland�s text of Hippolytus. Rethinking Greek Philosophy will be rewarding reading not only for specialists in early Greek philosophy and their students, but also for historians of ideas and others 'concerned with the interpretation of fragmentary texts. / Contents Preface Introduction Part One: The Test Cases 1. Aristotle 2. Simon Magus Part Two: Embedded Texts 3. Empedocles 4. Heraclitus Conclusion Appendix A: Hippolytus on the phusikoi Appendix B: The Apophasis Megale of Simon Magus Appendix C: Text and translation of Hippolytus, Refutation Appendix D: Greek texts of passages discussed in translation Bibliography Glossary and index of Greek and Latin terms Index locorum General index. ISBN 9780801421037