Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Achievement of Early Greek Philosophy: A Drama in Five Acts: From Thales to the Timaeus -- 2. Anaximander's apeiron and the Arrangement of Time -- 3. The Problem of Evil in Heraclitus -- 4. Reason and Myth in Early Pythagorean Cosmology -- 5. A Systematic Xenophanes? -- 6. Parmenides, Early Greek Astronomy, and Modern Scientific Realism -- 7. Where Are Love and Strife? Incorporeality in Empedocles -- 8. Anaxagoras: Science and Speculation in the Golden Age -- 9. Bacon's Third Sailing: The "Presocratic" Origins of Modern Philosophy -- 10. Primal Truth, Errant Tradition, and Crisis: The Presocratics in Late Modernity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Sources -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.