This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought.

A Text and Translation with Notes and Essays by Patricia Curd

Acknowledgements
Introduction
To the Reader

PART I: Fragments and Testimonia

1. The Fragments and their Contexts
2. Notes on the Fragments
3. Testimonia

PART II: Essays

1. Essay 1. Anaxagoras’ Life and Work
• Anaxagoras’ Life - Parmenides and the Response to Eleaticism - Anaxagoras and Later Greek Thought - Anaxagoras in Aristotle
2. Essay 2. The Original Mix and the Seeds
• The Original Mix - A View between the Expansive and Austere Ontologies - Seeds
3. Essay 3. Everything in Everything
4. Essay 4. Minding Things: The Workings of Nous
• Understanding Nous - What Things Have To Do With Mind - Minding Things
5. Essay 5: Anaxagorean Science
• Making a World -Separation Here and Elsewhere -Natural Phenomena Above, On, and In the Earth - Living Things: Embryology and Perception -Science and Metaphysics -After Anaxagoras

PART III: Notes on the Sources, Bibliography, Indexes

1. Notes on the Sources
2. Bibliography
3. Index Locorum
4. Index of Names and Topics