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This is a comprehensive study of the Derveni Papyrus. The papyrus, found in 1962 near Thessaloniki, is not only one of the oldest surviving Greek papyri but is also considered by scholars as a document of primary importance for a better understanding of the religious and philosophical developments in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Gábor Betegh aims to reconstruct and systematically analyse the different strata of the text and their interrelation by exploring the archaeological context; the interpretation of rituals in the first columns of the text; the Orphic poem commented on by the author of the papyrus; and the cosmological and theological doctrines which emerge from the Derveni author's exegesis of the poem. Betegh discusses the place of the text in the context of late Presocratic philosophy and offers an important preliminary edition of the text of the papyrus with critical apparatus and English translation.

Dionysia. --- Orphisme --- Derveni papyrus. --- Papyrus de Derveni. --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion. --- Religion --- 292.9 --- 113 --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman Sects and reform movements --- Philosophy Cosmology --- Grèce --- Dionysia --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Religion grecque --- Cosmologie grecque --- Musée archéologique (Thessalonique, Grèce) --- Héraclite d'Éphèse (0550?-0480? av. J.-C.) --- Papyrus grecs --- Sources --- Manuscrits. Papyrus de Derveni

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Concepts are basic features of rationality. Debates surrounding them have been central to the study of philosophy in the medieval and modern periods, as well as in the analytical and Continental traditions. This book studies ancient Greek approaches to the various notions of concept, exploring the early history of conceptual theory and its associated philosophical debates from the end of the archaic age to the end of antiquity. When and how did the notion of concept emerge and evolve, what questions were raised by ancient philosophers in the Greco-Roman tradition about concepts, and what were the theoretical presuppositions that made the emergence of a notion of concept possible? The volume furthers our own contemporary understanding of the nature of concepts, concept formation, and concept use. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Concepts. --- Philosophy, Ancient.

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Pythagoras and Heraclitus developed theories of the universe and mankind’s place in it which were taken seriously by all later Greek thinkers. None of their works remains, however, except in later paraphrases that all too often are misrepresentations. Pythagoras had followers who attributed their own ideas to their master; Heraclitus wrote in a prose style so ambiguous that he came to be known as the Shadow, so that even the most earnest attempts to paraphrase his views had to smooth out his intentional rough edges. Nonetheless, enough remains to allow the authors of this volume, edited by David Sider and Dirk Obbink (Oxford), to offer new ways of viewing their views and the way others perceived them. The contributors are Gábor Betegh (Budapest), Roman Dilcher (Heidelberg), Aryeh Finkelberg (Tel Aviv), Daniel Graham (Brigham Young University), Herbert Granger (Wayne State University), Carl Huffman (DePauw), Enrique Hülsz Piccone (Mexico City), Anthony Long (Berkeley), Richard McKirahan (Pomona), Catherine Rowett (East Anglia), David Sider (New York), and Leonid Zhmud (St. Petersberg).

Philosophers, Ancient. --- Ancient philosophers --- Heraclitus, --- Pythagoras. --- Pitágora --- Pitagora di Samo --- Pitágoras --- Pitágoras de Samos --- Pythagore --- Πυθαγόρας --- فيثاغورس --- Heraclitus --- Héraclite --- Heraclitus van Efese --- Heraclitus van Ephese --- Herakleitos --- Eraclito --- Eraclito, --- Geraklit, --- Heracleitus, --- Heraclit, --- Héraclite, --- Heraclito --- Hērakleitos, --- Heraklit, --- Herakʻŭlleitʻosŭ --- Kheraklit, --- היראקליטוס --- Ἡράκλειτος, --- Heraclitus. --- Presocratic philosophy.