No English version of these remains has been hitherto available, and, as a knowledge of them is necessary for any proper appreciation of the mature development of Greek philosophy, this book supplies a conspicuous need.

• Foreword 1. Orpheus 2. Musaeus 3. Epimenides 4. Hesiod 5. Phocus 6. Cleostratus 7. Pherecydes 8. Theagenes 9. Acusilaus 10. The Seven Sages 11. Thales 12. Anaximander 13. Anaximenes 14. Pythagoras 15. Cercops 16. Petron 17. Bro(n)tinus 18. Hippasos 19. Calliphon and Democedes 20. Parm(en)iscus 21. Xenophanes 22. Heracleitus 23. Epicharmus 24. Alcmaeon 25. Iccus 26. Paron 27. Ameinias 28. Parmenides 29. Zeno 30. Melissus 31. Empedocles 32. Menestor 33. Xuthus 34. Boidas 35. Thrasyalces 36. Ion of Chios 37. Damon 38. Hippon of Samos 39. Phaleas and Hippodamus 40. Polycleitus 41. Oenopides 42. Hippocrates of Chios 43. Theodorus 44. Philolaus 45. Eurytus 46. Archippus. Lysis. Opsimus 47. Archytas 48. Occelus (Ocellus) 49. Timaeus 50. Hicetas 51. Ecphantus 52. Xenophilus 53. Diocles, Echecrates, Polymnastus, Phanton: Arion 54. Prorus, Amyclas, Cleinias 55. Damon and Phintias 56. Simus, Myonides, Euphranor 57. Lycon 58. The Pythagorean School 59. Anaxagoras 60. Archelaus 61. Metrodorus of Lampsacus 62. Cleidemus 63. Idaeus 64. Diogenes of Apollonia 65. Cratylus 66. Antisthenes the Heracleitcan 67. Leucippus 68. Democritus 69. Nessas 70. Metrodorus of Chios 71. Diogenes of Smyrna 72. Anaxarchus 73. Hecataeus of Abdera 74. Apollodorus (of Cyzicus) 75. Nausiphanes 76. Diotimus 77. Bion of Abdera 78. Bolus 79. 'Sophist': Name and Concept 80. Protagoras 81. Xeniades 82. Gorgias 83. Lycophron 84. Prodicus 85. Thrasymachus 86. Hippias 87. Antiphon the Sophist 88. Critias 89. The Anonymous Writer quoted by lamblichus 90. Twofold Arguments