The beginnings of philosophy in Greece /Maria Michela Sassi ; translated by Michele Asuni.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; A Note on This Edition; Introduction; Chronological Chart; Chapter 1 Thales, Father of Philosophy?; Before the Presocratics; Ex Oriente Lux?; Back to Aristotle; Knowledge Has Many Faces; Chapter 2 Philosophy in the Cosmogonies; Hesiod: Cosmic Masses and Divine Personas; Anaximander in a World "without Gods"; The Invention of the Cosmos; The Horizon of the Theogonies; Pherecydes's "Mixed Theology"; A Cosmogony in the Temple of Thetis?; A New, Self-Conscious Knowledge; Chapter 3 Writing Experiments; A "Hot" Society; Egotisms; The Power of Writing

Anaximander: The Treatise and the MapXenophanes, Satirist and Polemicist; The Obscure Heraclitus; Chapter 4 Adventures of the Soul; The Soul, the Cosmos, and an Orange; From Breath to the Self; Restless Souls; Empedocles and His Daimon; To Each His Own (Compound); Chapter 5 Voices of Authority; The Odd Couple; Farewell to the Muse; Power Games; The Truth Revealed in Song; Between Muses and Other Gods; The Specialization of Reason; Bibliography; Index