Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

1Introduction

2Plato and Aristotle

3The Milesian Philosophers

4The Hippocratic On the Sacred Disease

5The Hippocratic On Regimen

6Xenophanes and Others: More Natural Explanation

7Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans

8The Early Pythagoreans and Numerology

9Empedocles

10Leucippus and Democritus

11Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index of Names

General Index