The Poem of the Cosmos

Name: The Poem of the Cosmos
Author: Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras

by Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras · translated by Julian K. Morrow

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Philosophy before it had prose: every surviving fragment of Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles and Anaxagoras, translated fresh from the Greek, with the ancient life of each man.

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