Author Rowett, Catherine.

Title Presocratic philosophy : a very short introduction / Catherine Osborne.

Pub Info Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Table of Contents
	List of illustrations
	Map
	Timelines
	note on the pronunciation
	Introduction
1	Lost words, forgotten worlds					1
2	Puzzles about first principles					29
3	Zeno's tortoise					51
4	Reality and appearance : more adventures in metaphysics					61
5	Heraclitus					80
6	Pythagoras and other mysteries					97
7	Spin doctors of the 5th century					112
	Epilogue					133
	Further reading					136
	Index					141